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otoacoustics

otoacoustics noun: the science studying otoacoustic sounds.

Noun

otoacoustics (uncountable)

  1. The science studying otoacoustic sounds.
  2. Otoacoustic sounds and related phenomena, collectively.
    • These faint sounds of otoacoustics, produced by the expansion and contractions of hair cells within the outer cochlea, could not be measured until the development of sufficiently sensitive low noise microphones in the late 1970s, so the […]2010, David Toop, Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener

Origin of otoacoustics

From oto- + acoustics.

Questions about otoacoustics

What does otoacoustics mean?
Otoacoustics means the science studying otoacoustic sounds.
What part of speech is otoacoustics?
Otoacoustics is a noun.

Words near otoacoustics in the dictionary

  1. Oto-Pamean
  2. otoacariasis
  3. otoacoustic
  4. otoacoustical
  5. otoacoustically
  6. otoacoustics
  7. otoancorin
  8. otoantritis
  9. otoba fat
  10. otocadherin
  11. otoccipital

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