circumaural

adj
/sɝkʌmaɹʌl/

Etymology

From circum- (“around”) + aural (“ear”).

  1. borrowed from auralis
  2. prefixed as circumaural — “circum + aural

Definitions

  1. Surrounding the pinnae or external ears, as in circumaural headphones.

    • They adjusted with a-dB step attenuator the loudness of one of two circumaural earphones to equality with a standard WE 705A ear-phone set at 40 dB...
    • First, they are usually connected by a headband and it can be difficult to place the headband or the circumaural cushion so as not to rest on a scalp...
    • For the first two experiments, sounds were presented through canal (insert) earphones...; for the third experiment, circumaural earphones...were employed.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for circumaural. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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