sonometer

An instrument used to measure the sensitivity of hearing.

• 🇫🇷Instrument utilisé pour mesurer l'acuité auditive ou l'intensité sonore perçue, notamment dans les tests d'audiométrie.

1. Hearing sensitivity instrument C2 formal scientific

   An instrument used to measure the sensitivity of hearing, often by producing sounds of varying frequencies and intensities.

   • The audiologist used a sonometer to assess the patient's hearing range.
   • Modern sonometers can test hearing across a wide spectrum of frequencies.
   • The results from the sonometer indicated a slight hearing loss in the left ear.

   🇫🇷Sonomètre (audiométrie)

   Synonymes: audiometer

• sonometers plural form
• sonometers' possessive plural form
• sonometer's possessive singular form