binaural

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  1. adjective Having or relating to two ears.
  2. adjective Having to do with the perception of sound with both ears: binaural hearing.
  3. adjective Of or relating to sound transmission from two sources, which may vary acoustically, as in tone or pitch, to give a stereophonic effect.

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  • Red = ipsilateral ear, green = binaural, blue = contralateral ear. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Activations to monaural tones were enhanced over the hemisphere contralateral to stimulation while the distribution and magnitude of activations to binaural tones were indistinguishable from those produced by contralateral monaural tones. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Wustenberg T, Schulze K, Heinze HJ (2002) Asymmetric hemodynamic responses of the human auditory cortex to monaural and binaural stimulation. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • This is the first set I've recorded using a new technique which combines the direct recording with a binaural microphone recording to give a much better sense of the sound as it was when I played this set. —  RA News
  • I am of two minds about using binaural mics for bootleg recordings: I don't think they're generally up to it, but sometimes, they're the only thing that you can get past security. —  Planet GFMorris
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  1. from Latin bini, two and two, + auris = English ear.
 

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/bɪnˈɔrəl/
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