au·di·om·e·try

[aw-dee-om-i-tree]
noun Medicine/Medical.
the testing of hearing by means of an audiometer.

Origin:
1885–90; audio- + -metry

au·di·o·met·ric [aw-dee-uh-me-trik] , adjective
au·di·o·met·ri·cal·ly, adverb
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audiometer (ˌɔːdɪˈɒmɪtə) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
an instrument for testing the intensity and frequency range of sound that is capable of detection by the human ear
 
audiometric
 
adj
 
audio'metrically
 
adv
 
audi'ometrist
 
n
 
audi'ometry
 
n

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Audiometry is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
Example sentences
In your test of audiometry must have a variation in the curve.
Test frequencies in audiometry are derived from the musical scale, and are generally octave intervals.
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