audition (a dish on)

It is generally admitted that the audition of speech in the telephone is the result of repetitions, by the diaphragm in the receiving instrument, of the vibrations produced in the transmitter. Quoted in G. B. Pre scott's Elect. Invent., p. 288. 2. The sense of hearing; hearing, as a physiological function or faculty; one of the five special senses.-3. Something heard. [Rare.] I went to hear it [the Cock-Lane Ghost], for it is not an apparition, but an audition . Walpole, Letters, II. 333. O icles of audition. See o icle.