AUDIO
What does "AUDIO" mean?
Sound, especially when recorded, transmitted, or reproduced electronically.
Meanings
- Recorded or transmitted sound, or the sound portion of a recording or broadcast. The video looked sharp but the audio kept cutting out.
- Relating to the recording, transmission, or reproduction of sound. He upgraded to a proper audio interface for his podcast.
Did you know?
- The 'audio' range humans can hear spans about 20 to 20,000 Hz - and the top end erodes with age, so most adults can no longer hear the highest tones a child easily catches.
Word origin
From Latin 'audio', 'I hear', from 'audire' ('to hear'); adopted in English in the early 20th century as a prefix and standalone word for sound technology.
Remember it
AUDIO starts the same as 'audible' and 'audience' - all from Latin 'audire', to hear.
A little poem
A voice survives the body it once owned-
pressed into wax, into wire, into stone.
couplet
Wordplay
- I told my friend a joke over a bad connection. The audio was so poor he didn't get the punch line - he just got the silence afterward.
What it teaches
What you hear is only the band wide enough to reach you; the world hums far past your range.
Quick facts
What does AUDIO mean?
Sound, especially when recorded, transmitted, or reproduced electronically.
Is AUDIO a valid word?
Yes — AUDIO is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is AUDIO?
AUDIO has 5 letters and 3 syllables.
Where does AUDIO come from?
From Latin 'audio', 'I hear', from 'audire' ('to hear'); adopted in English in the early 20th century as a prefix and standalone word for sound technology.
What can AUDIO teach us?
What you hear is only the band wide enough to reach you; the world hums far past your range.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.