audio

adj
/ˈɔː.di.əʊ/UK/ˈoːdɪjəw//ˈɔ.di.oʊ/US/ˈɒd.i.oʊ/CA

Etymology

Clipping of audio-. Cognates include Sanskrit आविस् (āvís, “manifestly, evidently”) and Ancient Greek αἰσθάνομαι (aisthánomai, “perceive, notice”) whence English aesthetic.

  1. derived from aesthetic

Definitions

  1. Focused on audible sound, as opposed to sight.

    • If you're more audio than visual, tune in on the "A-V Soap Opera" (page 375).
    • I'm very audio, so I hear words.
  2. Sound, or a sound signal.

  3. A piece of sound that is recorded electronically.

    • I DMed him an audio of myself singing the South Park intro.
    • Others wryly illustrate appropriated audios, like instructions for quacking like a duck or a letter from an angry airline passenger.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at audio. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01audio02signal03communication04exchanging05exchange06ellipsis07film08recording09video

A definitional loop anchored at audio. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at audio

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA