Audiometer

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  • noun. An instrument for measuring hearing activity for pure tones of normally audible frequencies.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An instrument designed to gage the power of hearing and record it upon an arbitrary scale.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An instrument by which the power of hearing can be gauged and recorded on a scale.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An instrument which is used to determine the acuity of hearing.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an instrument used to measure the sensitivity of hearing
  • Word Usage
    "It was during this period that he developed a new type of audiometer which is operated by the patient and has applications outside the field of hearing."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract