light
light source | any device serving as a source of illumination, he stopped the car and turned off the lights |
| source | a facility where something is available |
| source of illumination | any device serving as a source of visible electromagnetic radiation |
ultraviolet lamp
ultraviolet source | any source of illumination that emits ultraviolet radiation |
width
breadth | the extent of something from side to side |
auditory meatus
acoustic meatus
ear canal
auditory canal
external auditory canal | either of the passages in the outer ear from the auricle to the tympanic membrane |
| auditory ossicle | ossicles of the middle ear that transmit acoustic vibrations from the eardrum to the inner ear |
| auditory system | the sensory system for hearing |
| auditory apparatus | all of the components of the organ of hearing including the outer and middle and inner ears |
Eustachian tube
auditory tube | either of the paired tubes connecting the middle ears to the nasopharynx, equalizes air pressure on the two sides of the eardrum |
labyrinthine artery
artery of the labyrinth
internal auditory artery | an artery that is a branch of the basilar artery that supplies the labyrinth |
labyrinthine vein
internal auditory vein | veins that drain the inner ear |
| auditory center | the part of the brain (in a fold of the cerebral cortex of the temporal lobe on both sides of the brain) that receives impulses from the ear by way of the auditory nerve |
acoustic nerve
auditory nerve
vestibulocochlear nerve
nervus vestibulocochlearis
eighth cranial nerve | a composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the vestibular organ and the hair cells of the cochlea |
auditory area
auditory cortex | the cortical area that receives auditory information from the medial geniculate body |
hearing
audition
auditory sense
sense of hearing
auditory modality | the ability to hear, the auditory faculty, his hearing was impaired |
auditory perception
sound perception | the perception of sound as a meaningful phenomenon |
sound
auditory sensation | the subjective sensation of hearing something, he strained to hear the faint sounds |
source
seed
germ | anything that provides inspiration for later work |
| auditory image | a mental image that is similar to an auditory perception |
| source language | a language that is to be translated into another language |
| source code | program instructions written as an ASCII text file, must be translated by a compiler or interpreter or assembler into the object code for a particular computer before execution |
| source book | a collection of historically important documents published together as a book |
| source program | a program written in a language from which statements are translated into machine language |
| source | a document (or organization) from which information is obtained, the reporter had two sources for the story |
| source materials | publications from which information is obtained |
typewriter font
constant-width font
fixed-width font
monospaced font | a typeface is which each character is given the same width (as by a typewriter) |
| auditory communication | communication that relies on hearing |
| reference source | a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to, he carried an armful of references back to his desk, he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation |
beginning
origin
root
rootage
source | the place where something begins, where it springs into being, the Italian beginning of the Renaissance, Jupiter was the origin of the radiation, Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River, communism's Russian root |
| point source | a concentrated source (especially of radiation or pollution) that is spatially constricted |
quasar
quasi-stellar radio source | a starlike object that may send out radio waves and other forms of energy, many have large red shifts |
| radio source | an object that radiates radio waves |
reservoir
source | anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies, an infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival |
generator
source
author | someone who originates or causes or initiates something, he was the generator of several complaints |
informant
source | a person who supplies information |
| passive source | an informant who is not assigned to obtain specific intelligence but who routinely passes on whatever information he or she has |
| source | (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system, a heat source, a source of carbon dioxide |
auditory aphasia
acoustic aphasia
word deafness | an impairment in understanding spoken language that is not attributable to hearing loss |
| auditory agnosia | inability to recognize or understand the meaning of spoken words |
auditory hallucination
acousma | illusory auditory perception of strange nonverbal sounds |
hyperacusis
hyperacusia
auditory hyperesthesia | abnormal acuteness of hearing due to increased irritability of the sensory neural mechanism, characterized by intolerance for ordinary sound levels |
| source | specify the origin of, The writer carefully sourced her report |
| source | get (a product) from another country or business, She sourced a supply of carpet, They are sourcing from smaller companies |
auditory
audile
auditive | of or relating to the process of hearing, auditory processing, an audile person |
| open-source | of or relating to or being computer software for which the source code is freely available |
obviously
evidently
manifestly
patently
apparently plainly
plain | unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly'), the answer is obviously wrong, she was in bed and evidently in great pain, he was manifestly too important to leave off the guest list, it is all patently nonsense, she has apparently been living here for some time, I thought he owned the property, but apparently not, You are plainly wrong, he is plain stubborn |
apparently
seemingly
ostensibly
on the face of it | from appearances alone, irrigation often produces bumper crops from apparently desert land, the child is seemingly healthy but the doctor is concerned, had been ostensibly frank as to his purpose while really concealing it-Thomas Hardy, on the face of it the problem seems minor |