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Grammar : Noun
Spell : aw-dish-uh n
Phonetic Transcription : ɔˈdɪʃ ən



Définition of audition

Origin :
  • 1590s, "power of hearing," from Middle French audicion "hearing (in a court of law)," from Latin auditionem (nominative auditio) "a hearing, listening to," noun of action from past participle stem of audire "hear" (see audience). Meaning "trial for a performer" first recorded 1881.
  • noun test of ability
Example sentences :
  • Experiments lead me to believe that these are organs of audition.
  • Extract from : « The Dawn of Reason » by James Weir
  • The science of audition and sound; that branch of physics which treats of their cause, nature, and phenomena.
  • Extract from : « Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I » by Arnold Cooley
  • Audition is cognition of principles, conversant about all articulate sounds.
  • Extract from : « The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha » by Madhava Acharya
  • She was not a baby-farm after all, and the audition of these squalling nurslings vexed her.
  • Extract from : « Mr. Punch's Country Life » by Various
  • If you're going to audition for the stars, cut down the volume!
  • Extract from : « Where I Wasn't Going » by Walt Richmond
  • Inasmuch as this soon stops, the abnormality and incorrectness of their audition is hard to establish.
  • Extract from : « Criminal Psychology » by Hans Gross
  • During his stay at the Htel Rossiya he arranged an audition of his newly composed sextet.
  • Extract from : « The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky » by Modeste Tchaikovsky
  • Abraham talked on, rather for the pleasure of utterance than for audition, so that his sister's abstraction was of no account.
  • Extract from : « Tess of the d'Urbervilles » by Thomas Hardy
  • He had just conducted the first audition of his new symphony—the Pathetic—in St. Petersburg.
  • Extract from : « An Autobiography » by Igor Stravinsky
  • The greater the surface by a given heating effect in the arc, the higher the limit of audition.
  • Extract from : « The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla » by Thomas Commerford Martin

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