What's the difference between masker and masser?

Masker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who wears a mask; one who appears in disguise at a masquerade.
  • (v. t.) To confuse; to stupefy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Finally, three mechanisms are discussed that contribute to the absence of unmasking by masker fluctuations in hearing-impaired listeners.
  • (2) Detectability of a filtered probe tone (250, 500, or 1000 Hz) was measured in the presence of a narrow-band Gaussian masker centered at the signal frequency.
  • (3) For fixed delta T (delta T greater than 3 msec), the masking effect may actually increase for the longer, less intense noises despite the fact that, for long maskers, there is less masker energy near the signal in time.
  • (4) Results indicated that the MLD decreased in magnitude as the interaural phase shift of the masker increased.
  • (5) Forward masking, as measured behaviorally, is defined as an increase in a signal's detection threshold resulting from a preceding masker.
  • (6) Thus the overshoot effect was markedly reduced by aspirin because the drug partially counteracted the normally poor detectability for signals presented soon after masker onset.
  • (7) Masker and signal frequencies were the same as for the first experiment.
  • (8) The iso-forward masking contour near the threshold of the masking effect across masker frequencies approximates a fiber's frequency threshold curve (FTC).
  • (9) In part, the small threshold shifts can be attributed to the reduction in response variance following the masker, which is the result of the adaptation of spontaneous activity.
  • (10) Hence, one cannot predict masked threshold from the acoustic spectra of the maskers used here since they differ from their internal representations.
  • (11) The data support a spectrum-analyzer model of detection in which multiband filtering of the input smooths the masker energy in each spectral region to approximate the Gaussian case.
  • (12) Recent investigations of the masking-level difference (MLD) have often involved measurement of the MLD as a function of masker level.
  • (13) The masker with the largest amplitude fluctuations exhibited greater forward-masking ability than other stimuli; this effect was observed on the high-frequency branch and within the tip region of the tuning curve.
  • (14) The 20-ms signal was presented at the onset or at the temporal center of the 400-ms masker.
  • (15) A reaction time paradigm was used to estimate the sensitivity of four subjects to airpuffs without and during continuous vibration (masker) of low (30 Hz) or high (240 Hz) frequency.
  • (16) The data from all three experiments suggest that threshold signal levels in the presence of interaural differences in masker intensity depend principally on the ear with the higher signal-to-masker ratio at the output of its auditory filter, a finding consistent with the power-spectrum model of masking.
  • (17) Because maskers that are decorrelated yield small MLDs, the MLD is likewise small at low masker levels.
  • (18) For large masker separations, r greater than 0.4, no consistent effects of signal phase were observed.
  • (19) The IMD is dominated by the cubic component (2f1-f2) and arises from the interaction of the probe tone and the simultaneous masker.
  • (20) Masker duration was 20 or 400 ms; in the latter case, the signal was presented in one of three temporal positions within the masker.

Masser


Definition:

  • (n.) A priest who celebrates Mass.

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