"audibility" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: audibilities [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin audibilitās. Etymology templates: {{der|en|NL.|audibilitās}} New Latin audibilitās Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} audibility (countable and uncountable, plural audibilities)
  1. The quality of being heard or understood; the degree to which a thing is audible. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: audibleness Translations (quality of being heard): audibilidade [feminine] (Galician), ακουστικότητα (akoustikótita) [feminine] (Greek), 可聴 (kachō) (Japanese), so-chlashtynys [masculine] (Manx), слы́шимость (slýšimostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), karinggan (Tagalog)

Inflected forms

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    {
      "word": "inaudibility"
    },
    {
      "word": "quietness"
    },
    {
      "word": "silence"
    }
  ],
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        "3": "audibilitās"
      },
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from New Latin audibilitās.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "audibilities",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1962 March, Brian Haresnape, “Design in 1961—a Retrospect”, in Modern Railways, page 191:",
          "text": "At a later date in production, the Western Region requested that the two-tone air horns should be placed on the cab roof instead of behind the buffer beam, in order to increase audibility.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "The quality of being heard or understood; the degree to which a thing is audible."
      ],
      "id": "en-audibility-en-noun-S0Ro7h06",
      "links": [
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          "heard",
          "heard"
        ],
        [
          "understood",
          "understood"
        ],
        [
          "audible",
          "audible"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "audibleness"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "quality of being heard",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "audibilidade"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "akoustikótita",
          "sense": "quality of being heard",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ακουστικότητα"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "kachō",
          "sense": "quality of being heard",
          "word": "可聴"
        },
        {
          "code": "gv",
          "lang": "Manx",
          "sense": "quality of being heard",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "so-chlashtynys"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "slýšimostʹ",
          "sense": "quality of being heard",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "слы́шимость"
        },
        {
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "quality of being heard",
          "word": "karinggan"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "audibility"
}
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    {
      "word": "inaudibility"
    },
    {
      "word": "quietness"
    },
    {
      "word": "silence"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
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        "3": "audibilitās"
      },
      "expansion": "New Latin audibilitās",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from New Latin audibilitās.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "audibilities",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "Terms with Galician translations",
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        "Terms with Japanese translations",
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      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1962 March, Brian Haresnape, “Design in 1961—a Retrospect”, in Modern Railways, page 191:",
          "text": "At a later date in production, the Western Region requested that the two-tone air horns should be placed on the cab roof instead of behind the buffer beam, in order to increase audibility.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "The quality of being heard or understood; the degree to which a thing is audible."
      ],
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        [
          "heard",
          "heard"
        ],
        [
          "understood",
          "understood"
        ],
        [
          "audible",
          "audible"
        ]
      ],
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        {
          "word": "audibleness"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
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  ],
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    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "quality of being heard",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "audibilidade"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "akoustikótita",
      "sense": "quality of being heard",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ακουστικότητα"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kachō",
      "sense": "quality of being heard",
      "word": "可聴"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "quality of being heard",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "so-chlashtynys"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "slýšimostʹ",
      "sense": "quality of being heard",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "слы́шимость"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "quality of being heard",
      "word": "karinggan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "audibility"
}

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