Word Meanings - AURISCOPE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An instrument for examining the condition of the ear.

Related words: (words related to AURISCOPE)

• INSTRUMENTAL
  Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental
• EXAMINABLE
  Capable of being examined or inquired into. Bacon.
• CONDITIONALITY
  The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
• EXAMINING
  Having power to examine; appointed to examine; as, an examining committee.
• CONDITIONAL
  Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . .
• INSTRUMENTALITY
  The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency. The instrumentality of faith in justification. Bp. Burnet. The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of attack and defense
• CONDITIONATE
  Conditional. Barak's answer is faithful, though conditionate. Bp. Hall.
• INSTRUMENTATION
  1. The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency. Otherwise we have no sufficient instrumentation for our human use or handling of so great a fact. H. Bushnell. The arrangement of a musical
• EXAMINANT
  1. One who examines; an examiner. Sir W. Scott. 2. One who is to be examined. H. Prideaux.
• INSTRUMENTALLY
  1. By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end. South. They will argue that the end being essentially beneficial, the means become instrumentally so. Burke. 2. With instruments of music; as, a song instrumentally accompanied. Mason.
• INSTRUMENT
  A writing, as the means of giving formal expression to some act; a writing expressive of some act, contract, process, as a deed, contract, writ, etc. Burrill. 4. One who, or that which, is made a means, or is caused to serve a purpose; a medium,
• CONDITION
  A clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligation; or, in case of a will, to suspend, revoke, or modify a devise or bequest. It is also the case of
• CONDITIONLY
  Conditionally.
• INSTRUMENTALISM
  The view that the sanction of truth is its utility, or that truth is genuine only in so far as it is a valuable instrument. -- In`stru*men"tal*ist, n. Instrumentalism views truth as simply the value belonging to certain ideas in so far as these
• EXAMINATOR
  An examiner. Sir T. Browne.
• EXAMINATE
  A person subjected to examination. Bacon.
• INSTRUMENTALIST
  One who plays upon an instrument of music, as distinguished from a vocalist.
• EXAMINATION
  1. The act of examining, or state of being examined; a careful search, investigation, or inquiry; scrutiny by study or experiment. 2. A process prescribed or assigned for testing qualification; as, the examination of a student, or of a candidate
• INSTRUMENTALNESS
  Usefulness or agency, as means to an end; instrumentality. Hammond.
• EXAMINEE
  A person examined.
• CROSS-EXAMINER
  One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.
• PREEXAMINATION
  Previous examination.
• REEXAMINABLE
  Admitting of being reëxamined or reconsidered. Story.
• INCONDITIONAL
  Unconditional. Sir T. Browne.
• UNCONDITIONAL
  Not conditional limited, or conditioned; made without condition; absolute; unreserved; as, an unconditional surrender. O, pass not, Lord, an absolute decree, Or bind thy sentence unconditional. Dryden. -- Un`con*di"tion*al*ly, adv.
• UNCONDITIONED
  Not subject to condition or limitations; infinite; absolute; hence, inconceivable; incogitable. Sir W. Hamilton. The unconditioned , all that which is inconceivable and beyond the realm of reason; whatever is inconceivable under logical forms or
• REEXAMINE
  To examine anew. Hooker.
• CROSS-EXAMINE
  To examine or question, as a witness who has been called and examined by the opposite party. "The opportunity to cross-examine the witnesses." Kent.