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語源

circum- (“around”) +‎ aural (“ear”).

形容詞

circumaural (not comparable)

1. Surrounding the pinnae or external ears, as in circumaural headphones.
   • 1969: John Donald Harris, An Efficient monaural procedure for the psychoacoustic calibration of earphones [1]

     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...

   • 1973: Richard F. Thompson, Michael M. Patterson, Bioelectric Recording Techniques [2]

     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...

   • 1999: Tamara T. Sowell, Bruce B. Blasch, Gale Watson, Low Vision And Blindness: Research And Development [3]

     For the first two experiments, sounds were presented through canal (insert) earphones...; for the third experiment, circumaural earphones...were employed.

関連する語

• supra-aural
• intra-aural