auditive

Example Sentences

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An audience which had come to applaud ballet was naturally disconcerted by such a contrast, and was unable to concentrate on something purely auditive.

From An Autobiography by Stravinsky, Igor

According to Hensen, certain Crustacea on sloughing spontaneously introduce fine grains of sand as auditive stones into their otolith vesicle.

From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst

The eye and the ear are not merely means of perception, for in that case there could be no visual and no auditive arts.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto

Hitherto we have considered only the audition of a single sound, but it is possible also to have simultaneous auditive sensations, as in musical harmony.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various

In the belief that the entire labyrinth was an auditive organ, Helmholtz, contrary to the results of his own masterly analysis, originally sought to interpret another part of the labyrinth as the organ of noises.

From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst