OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 19350

sounding

/ˈsaʊndɪŋ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
sonda • sondeo
A test made with a probe or sonde.
Morning sounding at Chatham showed dry adiabatic lapse rate all the way to 700 mb this morning […]
Soundings showed wide variations in depths of water, and from the dredgings of the bottom came new types of sediment […]
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