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acoumeter
"Any of various devices or instruments used to test or measure the sense of hearing", Early 19th cent.; earliest use found in
Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal
. From ancient Greek
ἀκούειν
to hear + -meter, originally after French
acoumètre
.