Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An instrument for counteracting deafness by collecting the sound-waves and transmitting the vibrations to the auditory nerves through the bony part of the head.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve and enables the deaf to hear more or less distinctly; a dentiphone.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve and enables the deaf to hear more or less distinctly.

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Examples

  • The audiphone has been recently tried in the Board School for Deaf and

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 Various

  • Some 20 per cent. of the pupils in deaf and dumb schools have sufficient power of hearing when assisted by the audiphone to enable them to take their places in the classes of the ordinary schools.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 Various

  • To a large extent they are responsible for the development of radio, the development of broadcasting equipment, the development of trans-Atlantic telephony, the development of the artificial larynx, the audiphone for testing hearing, and permalloy which enables telegraph cables to carry several times the load which they were previously able to carry, and dozens of other very interesting and very useful developments.

    The Birthplace of Sound 1930

  • He pushed his audiphone and mirror-grid to one side.

    Wandl the Invader Ray Cummings 1922

  • Grantline's voice in my audiphone broke my despairing thoughts.

    Brigands of the Moon Ray Cummings 1922

  • As my grip upon him made audiphone contact, his agonized scream rattled the diaphragms of my ear grids with horrible, deafening intensity.

    Brigands of the Moon Ray Cummings 1922

  • I whispered into the audiphone, "It's coming over the crater."

    Brigands of the Moon Ray Cummings 1922

  • His voice sounded from the tiny audiphone grid within my helmet.

    Wandl the Invader Ray Cummings 1922

  • And then an interior audiphone blared a calling for Grantline.

    Brigands of the Moon Ray Cummings 1922

  • An audiphone buzzer interrupted him, a call from the duty man in the instrument room of the nearby building.

    Brigands of the Moon Ray Cummings 1922

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