Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being audible.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being audible; power of being heard; audible capacity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
heard orunderstood ; the degree to which a thing isaudible .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun quality or fact or degree of being audible or perceptible by the ear
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Examples
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Certainly not ghastly Bartoli with her thin, quivering sound and facial contortions, and definitely not Gilfry with his tight baritone pushed beyond the bounds of vocal beauty for the sake of (near) audibility.
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Certainly not ghastly Bartoli with her thin, quivering sound and facial contortions, and definitely not Gilfry with his tight baritone pushed beyond the bounds of vocal beauty for the sake of (near) audibility.
Bel Canto 2009
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A piercing, glitch-like mechanical sound drifts in and out of audibility.
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A piercing, glitch-like mechanical sound drifts in and out of audibility.
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Suddenly a high-pitched shriek that scraped the upper limits of audibility echoed from behind the opaque barrier.
The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010
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The main stage area, with the audience placed on either side, creates audibility problems, and for all its invention, the production sometimes feels as if it is trying too hard and needs to be allowed to simmer rather than boil all the time.
Relish 2010
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This was all on the pretext that he had to check the audibility and balance of the orchestra.
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Hence also the problem with the audibility of the four soloists.
The Big Finn(ish) 2008
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He lay under a languid ceiling fan, a muted Beethoven symphony on the hi-fi just at the threshold of audibility.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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He lay under a languid ceiling fan, a muted Beethoven symphony on the hi-fi just at the threshold of audibility.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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