adit
Americannoun
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an entrance or a passage.
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Also called entry. Mining. a nearly horizontal passage leading into a mine.
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an approach or access.
noun
Etymology
Origin of adit
1595–1605; < Latin aditus an approach, equivalent to ad- ad- + -i- (stem of īre to go) + -tus suffix of v. action
Example Sentences
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Some 238mm of rain was measured at Sloy Main Adit in Argyll and Bute between 9am on 17 January 1974 and 9am the following day.
From BBC • Oct. 19, 2023
Excavation work at Adit 3 was possibly completed by May, it said.
From Reuters • Sep. 7, 2022
Some Christmastime airfares are approaching what they were in 2019, said Adit Damodaran, an economist with travel website Hopper.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 25, 2021
Prosecutors filed an 18,000-page charge sheet, which took the high court another six months and 30 hearings to process, according to her lawyer, Adit Pujari.
From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2021
The Expence of which shafts, in regard of their vast depth, hardness of the Rock, drawing of water, &c. doth sometimes equal, yea exceed the ordinary charge of the whole Adit.
From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry
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