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biaural

biaural is the alternative form of binaural.

Meaning of binaural

Adjective

binaural (not comparable)

  1. Of, relating to, affecting, or designed for use with two ears.
    • In 1839, German experimenter Heinrich Wilhelm Dove discovered that illusory "beats" are perceived when pure tones of slightly different frequency are separately and simultaneously presented to each ear. Dove's insight was to realize that since there is no acoustic mixing of the tones, the perceived...2011, anonymous author, “Gnaural : An opensource binaural-beat generator”, in Sourceforge.net, retrieved 08 Sep 2013

Questions about biaural

What is biaural the alternative form of?
Biaural is the alternative form of binaural.

Words near biaural in the dictionary

  1. biathloners
  2. biathlons
  3. biatomic
  4. biatorine
  5. biatrial
  6. biaural
  7. biauricular
  8. biauriculate
  9. biautomata
  10. biautomatic
  11. biautomaton

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