monaural
- adjective
- /ˌmoʊˈnɔːrəl/
- Specialized
- Starting with a simple monaural recording of a conversation, the experimenter can place the individual talkers in space.
Examples
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The staff audiovisual coordinator helped locate old monaural headphones for the older keyboards; inexpensive stereo headphones were purchased for the newer keyboards.
Academic text (1993) -
This monaural device improved physicians' ability to hear clues to their patients' underlying pathology and thus apply the appropriate treatment in many cases.
Blog text (18) -
Those subjects who rejected binaural amplification in favor of monaural amplification because of financial or cosmetic reasons comprised the monaural group.
Academic text (1993) -
The majority of the monaural files for the two channels were interleaved into one stereo file so that the onsets of the two channels were concurrent.
Academic text (1993) -
In more recent studies, Gatehouse prospectively examined the ability in four subjects with BSSHI at the time of monaural hearing-aid fitting, and at weekly intervals of up to 12 weeks post-fitting, using the speech materials employed in his earlier studies.
Academic text (1993) -
The documentary featured a monaural narration, allowing viewers to focus solely on the storyteller's voice.
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During the test, the participant used a monaural headset to better engage with the audio instructions.
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The museum provided a monaural audio guide for guests who preferred listening through one ear.
Synonyms
Sound recorded or played with one audio channel
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Morphology
Etymology
The word monaural comes from mono- 'one', as in monorail, and aural 'ear', so it means hearing with a single ear.