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monaural

monaural

8.6
Sound heard with only one ear
  • adjective
  • /ˌmoʊˈnɔːrəl/
  • Specialized
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  • Starting with a simple monaural recording of a conversation, the experimenter can place the individual talkers in space.

Examples

  • 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.

  • During the test, the participant used a monaural headset to better engage with the audio instructions.

  • The museum provided a monaural audio guide for guests who preferred listening through one ear.

Synonyms

monophonic
vsmonaural
  • Specialized
7.0

Sound recorded or played with one audio channel

relates to using only one ear for hearing rather than technical channel setup

Antonyms

binaural
  • Specialized
1 7.4

Using both ears to hear sound, often with headphones

Surface Forms

monaural positive

Morphology

monaural = aural (transparent) = mono + aural

The word is a direct prefixation of mono- to aural, yielding the meaning 'relating to one ear'.

Etymology

The word monaural comes from mono- 'one', as in monorail, and aural 'ear', so it means hearing with a single ear.