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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
- 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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