audiovisual

or au·di·o-vis·u·al

[ aw-dee-oh-vizh-oo-uhl ]

/ ˌɔ di oʊˈvɪʒ u əl /

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adjective

of, pertaining to, involving, or directed at both hearing and sight: audiovisual facilities; audiovisual techniques.

noun

Usually audiovisuals. audiovisual aids.

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Origin of audiovisual

First recorded in 1935–40; audio- + visual

OTHER WORDS FROM audiovisual

au·di·o·vis·u·al·ly, adverb

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How to use audiovisual in a sentence

His monotonous music is, really, like the audio soundtrack to a k-hole.
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Bottom line is that it will only be a BVR [beyond visual range] airplane.
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Due to the video lacking audio, what they were fighting about remains a mystery—“was Jay cheating?”
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Most of them were large birds—hawks, egrets, and even peacocks—for spectacular visual effect as they took flight.
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The audio message featured the words, “the real battle in Lebanon is yet to begin.”
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He devoured it whole with a kind of visual gulp—a flash; the entire meaning first, then lines, then separate words.
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This hour gives to the imaginative in every land a thrill, a yearning, and a pang of visual regeneration.
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For this reason the photographic images are less sensitive to conditions affecting the seeing than the visual images.
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For visual observation the Crossley telescope is provided with seven eyepieces, with powers ranging from 620 downward.
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However the scout did not move toward it until after a long moment of both visual and mental inspection of his surroundings.
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British Dictionary definitions for audiovisual

audiovisual

/ (ˌɔːdɪəʊˈvɪzjʊəl, -ʒʊəl) /

adjective

(esp of teaching aids) involving or directed at both hearing and sightthe language class had new audiovisual equipment

Derived forms of audiovisual

audiovisually, adverb

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audiovisual

or au·di·o-vis·u·al

Origin of audiovisual

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