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sonification

sonification noun: the process of sonifying.

Noun

sonification (countable and uncountable, plural sonifications)

  1. The process of sonifying.
    • In another project, Weather sonification (Flowers and al., 2001), the correlation is made between different types of data, such as air pressure and temperature, with musical instruments.2008, Fabio Paternò, Annelise Mark Pejtersen, Human-Computer Interaction Symposium, →ISBN
    • Sonification is a subset of a larger field called Auditory Display, which examines how sound can be used as the main conduit for conveying, understanding, and relaying information.2013, Nick Collins, Margaret Schedel, Scott Wilson, Electronic Music, →ISBN, page 173

Examples of sonification in a sentence

  • Over the past 20 years, there have been many explorations and examples of sonifications.2013, Siu-Lan Tan, Annabel J. Cohen, Scott D. Lipscomb, The Psychology of Music in Multimedia, →ISBN, page 350:
  • As such, the mappings for direct data sonification should be straightforward in order to provide an intuitive correlation between brain activity and sound.2014, Eduardo Reck Miranda, Julien Castet, Guide to Brain-Computer Music Interfacing, →ISBN, page 228:

Forms of sonification

pluralsonifications

Origin of sonification

From sonify + -ification.

Questions about sonification

What does sonification mean?
Sonification means the process of sonifying.
How do you use sonification in a sentence?
Over the past 20 years, there have been many explorations and examples of sonifications.
What part of speech is sonification?
Sonification is a noun.
What is the plural of sonification?
The plural of sonification is sonifications.

Words near sonification in the dictionary

  1. sonidegib
  2. sonifaction
  3. soniferous
  4. soniferously
  5. sonificated
  6. sonification
  7. sonifications
  8. sonified
  9. sonifier
  10. sonifiers
  11. sonifies

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