in-ear

American  

[in-eer] / ˈɪnˌɪər /

adjective

1. made to fit just inside the ear. Compare over-ear.

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noun

1. in-ears, a set of headphones or similar audio equipment designed to fit just inside the ear.

Example Sentences

There’s also an in-ear heart-rate monitor that can beam your pulse to apps on your iPhone.

From The Wall Street Journal

In comparison to her Glastonbury headline slot, there was one similarity - she again suffered technical issues on Tuesday evening, appearing to struggle with her in-ear monitors throughout.

From BBC

Farrell, meanwhile, says in his lawsuit that the other members had spent years “bullying” and “trying to undermine” him by turning up the volume on their instruments so loud that he was forced to crank his in-ear monitors to dangerous levels to hear his own voice.

From Los Angeles Times

The musical pleasures were the ripples of detail in all those familiar tunes: a little ha-ha-ha Knight used to punctuate “That’s What Friends Are For”; LaBelle’s frisky vocal runs in “When You Talk About Love,” which she sang as a stagehand came out to help put her in-ear monitor back in; the way Khan toyed with her phrasing in “Through the Fire,” slowing down when you thought she’d speed up and vice versa.

From Los Angeles Times

During the quietest scene, they tiptoe upstairs, put on in-ear monitors and tune their second set of instruments until the last second.

From Los Angeles Times