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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"As soon as you go in through that adit, you could literally be back in the 1800s," he said.
From BBC • Nov. 6, 2021
Once the tunnel was in use, the adit served as a ventilation shaft.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 30, 2021
Lina points to a low tunnel leading off the main passage, an access adit perhaps two feet high.
From The New Yorker • May 23, 2019
The solar panels are intended for just the adit of the shaft, Bierman said.
From Washington Times • Jan. 4, 2016
The adit of a military mine, is the aperture by which it is dug and charged: the name is also applied to an air-hole or drift.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
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