Etymology
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audiovisual (adj.)

also audio-visual, 1937, from audio- + visual.

Entries linking to audiovisual

audio- 
word-forming element meaning "sound, hearing," from combining form of Latin audire "to hear" (from PIE root *au- "to perceive"); used in English word formation by 1890s.
visual (adj.)
early 15c., "pertaining to the faculty of sight;" also "coming from the eye or sight" (as a beam of light was thought to do), from Late Latin visualis "of sight," from Latin visus "a sight, a looking; power of sight; things seen, appearance," from visus, past participle of videre "to see" (see vision). Meaning "perceptible by sight" is from late 15c; sense of "relating to vision" is first attested c. 1600. The noun meaning "photographic film or other visual display" is first recorded 1944.
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Definitions of audiovisual
1
audiovisual (n.)
materials using sight or sound to present information;
language tapes and videocassettes and other audiovisuals
Synonyms: audiovisual aid
2
audiovisual (adj.)
involving both hearing and seeing (usually relating to teaching aids);
the school's audiovisual department
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