adjective
- Electronics. designating an electronic apparatus using audio frequencies: audio amplifier.
- of, relating to, or employed in the transmission, reception, or reproduction of sound.
- of or relating to frequencies or signals in the audible range.
noun
- Television.
- the audio elements of television (distinguished from video).
- the circuits in a receiver for reproducing sound.
- the audio part of a television broadcast.
- the field of sound recording, transmission, reception, and reproduction.
- a combining form used in the formation of compound words, with the meanings: “sound within the range of human hearing” (audiometer); “hearing” (audiology); “sound reproduction” (audiophile).
noun (modifier)
- of or relating to sound or hearingaudio frequency
- relating to or employed in the transmission, reception, or reproduction of sound
- of, concerned with, or operating at audio frequencies
combining form
- indicating hearing or soundaudiometer; audiovisual
“sound,” especially recorded or transmitted, 1934, abstracted from prefix audio- (in audio-frequency, 1919, etc.), from Latin audire “hear” (see audience).
word-forming element meaning “sound, hearing,” from comb. form of Latin audire “hear,” (see audience); first used in English as a word-formation element 1913.
pref.
- Hearing:audiology.
- Sound:audiogenic.