Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having or relating to two ears.
- adjective Having to do with the perception of sound with both ears.
- adjective Of or relating to sound transmission from two sources, which may vary acoustically, as in tone or pitch, to give a stereophonic effect.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having two ears.
- Pertaining to or involving the use of both ears; fitted for being simultaneously used by two ears: as, a binaural stethoscope, which has two connected tubes capped by small earpieces.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to, or used by, both ears.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of, relating to, affecting, or designed for use with two ears
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or having or hearing with two ears
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Examples
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They use a fancy thing called a binaural beat, combined with a hypnotherapy track, to help pull you into the depth of a good nap.
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They use a fancy thing called a binaural beat, combined with a hypnotherapy track, to help pull you into the depth of a good nap.
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And you could listen in headphones with this thing called binaural recording.
John Walker re-creates great performances John Q. Walker 2007
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And you could listen in headphones with this thing called binaural recording.
John Walker re-creates great performances John Q. Walker 2007
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And you could listen in headphones with this thing called binaural recording.
John Walker re-creates great performances John Q. Walker 2007
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Dr. Fligor, who called binaural beats "not the least bit harmful," would probably agree with this assessment, but just in case i-dosing is the first step on the path to heroin addiction, it would behoove you to know how to spot the warning signs of a digital drug problem.
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Digital drugs, for you unhip and unaware types (which I was until learning about them yesterday), are essentially sounds called binaural beats that one can download from various websites.
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They use a fancy thing called a binaural beat, combined with a hypnotherapy track, to help pull you into the depth of a good nap.
Lifehacker Daniel Tenner 2010
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The humans cannot hear sound low enough to be useful for brain stimulation, so we've used a technique called binaural beats.
Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Windows 2010
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Another of the new developments is an audio technology known as binaural beats.
Article Source Colleen Rikke 2009
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