masking

Examples

• All

• On average, subjects with high-frequency hearing loss demonstrated greater amounts of upward spread of masking than did normal-hearing listeners.

  Academic text (1993)

• The present study, in contrast, used a spectrally rotated speech signal to control for energetic masking.

  Academic text (2012)

• Significantly, another sound masking method was recently introduced to my library.

  Academic text (2014)

• Differences in the masking patterns were considered a measure of upward spread of masking.

  Academic text (1993)

• Hence, the magnitude of the effect of the masking speech was not identical for all participants.

  Academic text (2012)

• The marginally significant items were included here to avoid overlooking potential masking effects.

  Academic text (2006)

• Upward spread of masking was excessive for several of the hearing-impaired subjects used in this study.

  Academic text (1993)

• A second objective of masking in randomized trials is to remove extraneous effects.

  Academic text (2002)

• The randomization and masking procedures helped to reduce to a minimum selection and ascertainment bias.

  Academic text (1997)

• We hypothesized that a child's performance in a forward-masking task would be inferior to that of an adult.

  Academic text (1992)

Synonyms

O

obscuration

vsmasking

1 8.2

Something that stops you from seeing or understanding

occurs when one sensation reduces perception of another through interference

Compounds

M

masking tape

5 2.8

A thin sticky tape for covering parts before painting or holding things temporarily

M

masking paper

3.7

A paper with a sticky edge that you put on parts of a surface to protect them from paint

M

masking piece

• Jargon

9.5

A piece of stage scenery that hides parts of the stage from the audience

How Effective

purification

15 4.6

deodorization

4.8

masking

• Specialized

1 6.6

Surface Forms

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Etymology