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BTE

BTE is the initialism of behind the ear.

BTE is the initialism of Boltzmann transport equation.

Meaning of behind the ear

Adjective

behind the ear (not comparable)

  1. Describing a type of hearing aid with microphone, amplifier, and battery that sit in a unit behind the wearer's auricle, and the amplified sound is passed down a tube into the ear canal.

Noun

BTE (countable and uncountable, plural BTEs)

  1. (countable) A behind-the-ear hearing aid.

Forms of BTE

pluralBTEs

Questions about BTE

What does BTE mean?
BTE means a behind-the-ear hearing aid.
What is BTE the initialism of?
BTE is the initialism of behind the ear.
What part of speech is BTE?
BTE is a noun.
What is the plural of BTE?
The plural of BTE is BTEs.

Words near BTE in the dictionary

  1. BTD
  2. BTDT
  3. BTDTBTTS
  4. BTDTGTTS
  5. btdubs
  6. BTE
  7. BTEC
  8. BTECs
  9. BTEs
  10. BTEX
  11. BTFO

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: BTE (page history and authors); behind the ear (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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