auralize

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English

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Etymology

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From aural +‎ -ize, on the model of visualize.

Verb

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auralize (third-person singular simple present auralizes, present participle auralizing, simple past and past participle auralized)

  1. To model acoustic phenomena in a virtual environment; to engage in auralization.
  2. To form a mental representation of what something sounds like.
    Synonym: audialize
    • 2010, Pauline Oliveros, Sounding the Margins: Collected Writings 1992-2009, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 23:
      For example I ask musicians to auralize the sound of cells dividing as a sonic metaphor in the score to Primordial Lift. It could be helpful though to actually be able to hear the real sound as an example. We live in a sonorous environment.
    • 2016, Evangeline Benedetti, Cello, Bow and You: Putting it All Together, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 201:
      Play the first note of a scale, and while holding it, auralize the second note; then play the second note, and while holding it, hear in your head the third note; then play that note, and continue throughout the scale.

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