audio

Focused on audible sound, as opposed to sight.

Adjective

  1. Focused on audible sound, as opposed to sight.
    • If you're more audio than visual, tune in on the "A-V Soap Opera" (page 375). - 1955, The Educational Screen - Volume 34, page 366:
    • I'm very audio, so I hear words. - 1997, Arthur Myers, Communicating With Animals, →ISBN:
    • For example, if the person uses visual predicates such as “I see” or “I can't picture that,” the most powerful influencers will respond by saying “Let me show you,” as opposed to “let me explain,” the latter predicate...

Origin

Clipping of audio-. Cognates include Sanskrit आविस् (āvís, “manifestly, evidently”) and Ancient Greek αἰσθάνομαι (aisthánomai, “perceive, notice”) whence English aesthetic.

Forms

more audio most audio

Noun

  1. Sound, or a sound signal.
  2. A piece of sound that is recorded electronically.
    • I DMed him an audio of myself singing the South Park intro.
    • Others wryly illustrate appropriated audios, like instructions for quacking like a duck or a letter from an angry airline passenger. - 2009 April 17, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times:

Forms

audios

Related

audible audio- audiobook audio commentary audio description audio file audiovisual audition auditive auditory dysaudia video

Derived

audiation audioboard audio book audio-book audio card audio cassette audio CD audiocentric audiocentrism audio clip audio coil audioconference audio-description audio DVD audio engineer audio engineering audio frequency audio guide audio mastering audio mining audio play audiotape audio tape audio tour