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antimasking

antimasking adjective: preventing or counteracting masking.

Adjective

antimasking (not comparable)

  1. Preventing or counteracting masking.
    • The middle ear muscles, when contracted, serve an antimasking function by dampening the background noises and improving the ability of mammals to detect conspecific vocalizations.2010, The Handbook of Life-Span Development, Social and Emotional Development

Origin of antimasking

From anti- + masking.

Questions about antimasking

What does antimasking mean?
Antimasking means preventing or counteracting masking.
What part of speech is antimasking?
Antimasking is an adjective.

Words near antimasking in the dictionary

  1. antimasculinists
  2. antimasculinity
  3. antimask
  4. antimasker
  5. antimaskers
  6. antimasking
  7. antimasks
  8. antimason
  9. antimasonic
  10. antimasonry
  11. antimasons

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