Crossword clues for intelligibility
intelligibility
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intelligibility \In*tel`li*gi*bil"i*ty\, [Cf. F. intelligilibilit['e].] The quality or state of being intelligible; clearness; perspicuity; definiteness.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, from intelligible + -ity.
Wiktionary
n. 1 That which is intelligible; the degree to which something is intelligible. 2 The quality of recorded speech of every word being understandable.
WordNet
n. the quality of language that is comprehensible [ant: unintelligibility]
Wikipedia
In speech communication, intelligibility is a measure of how comprehensible speech is in given conditions. Intelligibility is affected by the quality of the speech signal, the type and level of background noise, reverberation, and, for speech over communication devices, the properties of the communication system. The concept of speech intelligibility is relevant to several fields, including phonetics, human factors, acoustical engineering, and audiometry.
Intelligibility may refer to:
- Mutual intelligibility, in linguistics
- Intelligibility (communication)
- Intelligibility (philosophy)
__NOTOC__ In philosophy, intelligibility is what can be comprehended by the human mind in contrast to sense perception. The intelligible method is thought thinking itself, or the human mind reflecting on itself. Plato referred to the intelligible realm of mathematics, forms, first principles, logical deduction, and the dialectical method. The intelligible realm of thought thinking about thought does not necessarily require any visual images, sensual impressions, and material causes for the contents of mind. Descartes referred to this method of thought thinking about itself, without the possible illusions of the senses. Kant made similar claims about a priori knowledge. A priori knowledge is claimed to be independent of the content of experience.
Usage examples of "intelligibility".
To avoid the Scylla of repetition and the Charybdis of intelligibility, keys would have to be, Mauborgne realized, both endless and senseless.
A second point: Whereas a Bach fugue cannot do without any one of its voices, we can easily imagine the Hanna Wendling short story or the essay on the disintegration of values as separate, freestanding texts whose deletion would cost the novel none of its meaning or intelligibility.
In this light, science, for scientific materialists, becomes an indispensable quest for intelligibility, without which the world and human existence become meaningless.
What a half-dozen boys taken out of our own ranks would have done with ease in an hour or so, these Rebels worried over all of the afternoon, and then their register of us was so imperfect, badly written and misspelled, that the Yankee clerks afterwards detailed for the purpose, never could succeed in reducing it to intelligibility.
According to the hermeneuticists, who describe the phenomenon from the inside [Left-Hand], nondiscursive practices 'govern' human action by setting up a horizon of intelligibility in which only certain discursive practices and their objects and subjects make sense.