absolute hearing
1Absolute threshold of hearing — The absolute threshold of hearing (ATH) is the minimum sound level of a pure tone that an average ear with normal hearing can hear with no other sound present. The absolute threshold relates to the sound that can just be heard by the… …
2Absolute pitch — (AP), widely referred to as perfect pitch, is the ability of a person to identify or recreate a musical note without the benefit of a known reference.DefinitionAbsolute pitch, or perfect pitch, is the ability to identify the frequency or musical… …
3absolute pitch — n. 1. the pitch of a tone as determined by its rate of vibration 2. the ability to identify the pitch of any tone heard, or to sing a given tone, without hearing a known pitch beforehand …
4Hearing range — for more detail on human hearing see Audiogram,Equal loudness contours and Hearing impairment. Hearing range usually describes the range of frequencies that can be heard by an animal or human, though it can also refer to the range of levels. In… …
5hearing — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Sense of hearing Nouns 1. hearing, sense of hearing; audition, auscultation; eavesdropping, audibility; acute ear, etc.; ear for music, perfect or absolute pitch; otology, audiology; audiometer;… …
6Absolute threshold — In neuroscience and psychophysics, an absolute threshold is the smallest detectable level of a stimulus. For example, in an experiment on sound detention, researchers may present a sound with varying levels of volume. The smallest level that a… …
7absolute pitch — noun the ability to identify the pitch of a tone • Syn: ↑perfect pitch • Hypernyms: ↑hearing, ↑audition, ↑auditory sense, ↑sense of hearing, ↑auditory modality …
8absolute pitch — perfect pitch, perfect hearing …
9sense of hearing — noun the ability to hear; the auditory faculty his hearing was impaired • Syn: ↑hearing, ↑audition, ↑auditory sense, ↑auditory modality • Derivationally related forms: ↑hear ( …
10hard of hearing — deaf Not describing a noise which is indistinct. Deafness, when so described, is not, like blindness, understood to be an absolute condition, except where described as stone deaf: I m hard of hearing, you know, she said. Practically… …
