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Definition of Inaudible

1. Adjective. Impossible to hear; imperceptible by the ear. "An inaudible conversation"

Definition of Inaudible

1. a. Not audible; incapable of being heard; silent.

Definition of Inaudible

1. Adjective. Not able to be heard or not loud enough to be heard. ¹

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Definition of Inaudible

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inaudible

Literary usage of Inaudible

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"At every inaudible puff of the whistle the flame fell fully sixteen inches, ... For the inaudible vibrations, having at their origin but a small amplitude ..."

2. Looking Backward, 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy (1917)
"If, of two persons side by side, one desired to listen to music and the other to sleep, it could be made audible to one and inaudible to another. ..."

3. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1833)
"On. Sounds inaudible by certain Ears. By William Hyde Wollaston, ... to render the higher note inaudible, although the lower one is heard distinctly. ..."

4. The Theory of Sound by John William Strutt Rayleigh (1896)
"Perhaps an interpretation might be given in more than one way, but the passage of an inaudible beat into an audible difference-tone seems to be more easily ..."

5. The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt by Leigh Hunt (1850)
"inaudible utterance—A poetical project. ON returning to England, we lived a while at High- gate, where I took possession of my old English scenery and my ..."

6. Gymnastics of the Voice for Song and Speech: Also a Method for the Cure of by Oskar Guttmann (1893)
"These movements all take place spontaneously ; the pupil has only to become conscious of them and to perfect them. inaudible inspiration is a thing so ..."

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