An audiometer is a specialized medical instrument that measures your ability to hear certain sounds. Doctors use audiometers to diagnose hearing loss.
The word audiometer combines audio, a word derived from a Latin word meaning "hear," and meter, from Greek and Latin words meaning "measure." A typical audiometer has headphones attached to a machine that makes a series of beeping sounds at different pitches and frequencies. You signal, usually by pressing a button, to show that you've heard a sound. The machine records the results and produces a graph, called an audiogram, which plots your hearing across different frequencies and pitches in each ear.
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an instrument used to measure the sensitivity of hearingsynonyms: sonometertype of:measuring device, measuring instrument, measuring systeminstrument that shows the extent or amount or quantity or degree of something
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Vocabulary lists containing audiometer
Learn these words that contain the root aud, from the Latin verb audire, "to hear." Here are links to the complete set of Common Senses lists: Hearing: Phon / Aud / Son Sight: Vid, Vis / Spec, Spect, Spic / Op, Ops, Opt Touch: Path / Sent, Sens / Tact, Tang
This vocabulary list features words with the Latin root that means "to hear."