circumaural
adj/sɝkʌmaɹʌl/
Etymology
From circum- (“around”) + aural (“ear”).
- borrowed from auralis
Definitions
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
Vish — recursive loop
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