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auditory meaning

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WAuditory
  • Auditory means of or relating to the process of hearing:
  • Auditory system, the neurological structures and pathways of sound perception.
  • Auditory bulla, part of auditory system found in mammals other than primates.
  • Auditory nerve, also known as the cochlear nerve is one of two parts of a cranial nerve.
  • Auditory ossicles, three bones in the middle ear that transmit sounds.
  • Sound, the physical signal perceived by the auditory system.
  • Hearing (sense), is the auditory sense, the sense by which sound is perceived.

    Definition of auditory in English Dictionary

  • NounPLauditoriesSUF-ory
    1. (archaic) An assembly of hearers; an audience.
      1. (archaic) An auditorium.
      2. Adjective
        1. Of, or relating to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing.
        2. More Examples
          1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
            • The posterolateral portion of both cerebellar hemispheres in crus II, lateral to the paravermian region, was activated by auditory stimulation at 40 Hz [36 , 37 ].
            • For soniferous otophysans, decreased auditory sensitivity is particularly harmful because it may reduce the capacity to detect acoustic signals from conspecifics.
            • By in situ hybridization, expression of all 3 microRNAs is robust in immature hair cells of both auditory and vestibular organs and is present in the statoacoustic ganglion.
        • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
          1. Adjectives
            • Uncomparable adjectives
            • Nouns
              • Countable nouns
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            1. en auditory canal
            2. en auditory canals
            Source: Wiktionary

            Meaning of auditory for the defined word.

            Grammatically, this word "auditory" is an adjective, more specifically, an uncomparable adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.
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