Audibility

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being heard or understood; the degree to which a thing is audible. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    quality or fact or degree of being audible or perceptible by the ear wordnet

Synonyms

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audiblenessattentionauditionearheedinglistening

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"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."

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin audibilitās.

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