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inaudible Definition

in·au·dible (in ôdə bəl)

adjective

not audible; that cannot be heard

Etymology: LL inaudibilis

inaudible Related Forms
in′·au′·dibil·ity noun in·au·dibly adverb
inaudible Synonyms

inaudible

modif.

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.