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Definition of Monaural
1. Adjective. Relating to or having or hearing with only one ear. "Monaural deafness"
Definition of Monaural
1. Adjective. of, relating to, affecting, or designed for use with one ear <''monaural'' deafness> ¹
2. Adjective. monophonic ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Monaural
1. pertaining to sound transmission, recording, or reproduction involving a single transmission path [adj]
Medical Definition of Monaural
1. Pertaining to one ear. Origin: mono-+ L. Auris, ear (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monaural
Literary usage of Monaural
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"At the olivary level, responses are abolished to left monaural ... During cooling,
olivary response to right monaural stimulation are not affected. ..."
2. Archives of Otology (1894)
"We distinguish between binaural and monaural ... in the monaural, which is much
rarer, a double perception of a single tone is got by one ear alone. ..."
3. Obstetrics, Normal and Operative by George Peaslee Shears (1916)
"No one who knows much about the fetal heart will try to hear it through a towel.
FIG. 50.—monaural stethoscope; made of aluminum and can be boiled ..."
4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1911)
"But for theory, monaural hearing presents a very different case from difference
in sensitivity in binaural hearing (when working with monaural hearing the ..."
5. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1922)
"monaural and binaural impressions differ in quality and in localisation; intensity
and quality depend on attention, which is always locally directed; ..."
6. Control Processes in Modified Hand-writing: An Experimental Study by June Etta Downey (1908)
"There are, however, several interesting contrasts between monaural and ...
The accuracy at 9O°r is about the same for a monaural as for a bin- aural person. ..."