inaudible
inaudible
Definition
in·au·dible (in ôd′ə bəl)
adjective
not audible; that cannot be heard
Etymology: LL inaudibilis
in′·au′·dibil′·ity noun
in·au′·dibly adverb
inaudible
Synonyms
inaudible
Usage Examples
Preposition: on
- tape: They will go into the [ word inaudible on the tape ] and touch the rain.
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- make: Noise from process and nearby road would have made the electric truck inaudible.
- mumble: He mumbled something inaudible, unable to meet Tsuzuki's eyes.
- render: During clip packages the sound quality was appalling, as the feed came from the arena, rendering everything virtually inaudible.
Modifying Another Word
- virtually: Answer Our inverters are virtually inaudible, they can be faintly heard by holding close to your ears.
- almost: I became obsessed with the almost inaudible motion of the streetcars that cut their path through the body of the city.
- totally: James, who spoke facing the wrong way, was totally inaudible.
- completely: Announcements about this or anything else over the pathetic sound system were completely inaudible.
- nearly: Miriam, nearly inaudible, answered some similar demand.
- often: The 43 kHz call is generally weak and often inaudible or absent.
Used with adjective complement
- discard: Discuss with a new arrivals are system account for encoders discard inaudible.
- become: The object continued on the same path without changing height, and very rapidly became inaudible again.
- render: Therein lies the rub, a potentially good demo rendered somewhat inaudible.
- remain: A bell rung in vacuo, with proper precautions to prevent the communication of motion, remains inaudible.
Modifies a noun
- sound: It was only 26 years ago that scientists discovered that the hair cells in the inner ear produce low level, inaudible sounds.
- word: QUESTION ( Peter Grant, BBC ): ( Several inaudible words ).
- voice: They are mostly silent but even when not silent they have a very quiet, almost inaudible, voice.
- question: INAUDIBLE QUESTION: Boyce: Superb is, sorry, INAUDIBLE QUESTION: Boyce: That is correct.
- signal: This patented technology encodes inaudible control signals within compact disk audio tracks.
- wave: Kubisch presents a series of ' electrical walks ' in which otherwise inaudible waves generated by everyday electromagnetic signals can be heard.
Browse dictionary entries near inaudible
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- inaugurate
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