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AUDIOMETRY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does audiometry mean?
• AUDIOMETRY (noun)
The noun AUDIOMETRY has 2 senses:
1. the measurement of hearing
2. measuring sensitivity of hearing
Familiarity information: AUDIOMETRY used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The measurement of hearing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
audiology; audiometry
Hypernyms ("audiometry" is a kind of...):
otology (the branch of medicine concerned with the ear)
Derivation:
audiometric (of or relating to audiometry)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Measuring sensitivity of hearing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("audiometry" is a kind of...):
measure; measurement; measuring; mensuration (the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule)
Derivation:
audiometric (of or relating to audiometry)
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