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adjective

  1. Electronics. designating an electronic apparatus using audio frequencies: audio amplifier.
  2. of, relating to, or employed in the transmission, reception, or reproduction of sound.
  3. of or relating to frequencies or signals in the audible range.

noun

  1. Television.
    1. the audio elements of television (distinguished from video).
    2. the circuits in a receiver for reproducing sound.
    3. the audio part of a television broadcast.
  2. the field of sound recording, transmission, reception, and reproduction.

  1. 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)

  1. of or relating to sound or hearingaudio frequency
  2. relating to or employed in the transmission, reception, or reproduction of sound
  3. of, concerned with, or operating at audio frequencies

combining form

  1. indicating hearing or soundaudiometer; audiovisual
n.

“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.

  1. Hearing:audiology.
  2. Sound:audiogenic.
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