Look up: Audience

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   audience
   [n] - the part of the general public interested in a source of information or entertainment 2. [n] - a gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance
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   Audience
   the person or persons receiving a speech or piece of writing
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   Audience
   Audience means the kind of reader or listener the text was intended for. As this is unlikely to be you, sadly you do need to attempt the near impossible and 'become' the intended reader. Always consider a text in this way or you will run the risk of 'misreading' it. Also, avoid being overly specific or informal when describing an audience`s likely ...
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   Audience
   The people addressed by a message in any medium. The term includes listeners, readers of print, film/TV audiences, and users of information technology.
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   Audience
   the readership whom the writer is addressing, the people who are being targeted by the article. e.g. young people, the elderly, an intelligent, sophisticated and articulate readership etc.
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   audience
   In literature and drama, the hearers or spectators of an event, the readers of a book, or the people who regularly watch or listen to a particular television or radio programme. ...
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   Audience
   the people addressed by a text. The term refers to listeners, readers of books, film/TV audiences and users of information technology.
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   audience
   a group or assembly of listeners. Category: General • total number of people who may receive an advertising message delivered by a medium.. Category: Commerce - movement of goods
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   Audience
   Au'di·ence noun [ French audience , Latin audientia , from audire to hear. See Audible , adjective ] 1. The act of hearing; attention to sounds. « Thou, therefore, give due audience , and attend. Milton. » 2. Admittance to a hearing; a formal interview, esp. with a sovereign or the head of a governmen ...
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    audience
    noun a gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance; `the audience applauded`; `someone in the audience began to cough`
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    Audience
    An `audience` is a group of people who participate in an experience or encounter a work of art, literature, theatre, music or academics in any medium. Audience members participate in different ways in different kinds of art; some events invite overt audience participation and others allowing only modest clapping and criticism and reception. Media audiences are studied by academics in media audience studies. Audience theory also offers scholarly ...
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    Audience
    • (a.) Admittance to a hearing; a formal interview, esp. with a sovereign or the head of a government, for conference or the transaction of business. • (a.) An auditory; an assembly of hearers. Also applied by authors to their readers. • (a.) The act of hearing; attention to sounds.
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    audience
    (from the article `United States`) Art is made by artists, but it is possible only with audiences; and perhaps the most worrying trait of American culture in the past half century, ... The psychology and behaviour of a radio or television audience, which is composed principally of individuals in the privacy of their own homes, ... .....
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    audience
    audience 1. A group of spectators at a public event; listeners or viewers collectively, as in attendance at a theater or concert. 2. The readership for printed matter, as for a book. 3. A body of adherents; a following. 4. A formal hearing, as with a religious or state dignitary. 5. An opportunity to be heard or to express one's views. 6. The act of ...
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    Audience
    The number of people or households exposed to a vehicle, without regard to whether they actually saw or heard the material conveyed by that vehicle.
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    Audience
    Total number of individuals reached by a promotion or advertisement.
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    Audience
    The number and/or characteristics of the persons or households who are exposed to a particular type of advertising media or media vehicle. In a library this could be a certain number of people that attend a library program.
    Found on http://www.ifla.org/VII/s34/pubs/glossar