Look up: ADIT

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   Adit
   An adit is the horizontal entrance to a mine.
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   adit
   [n] - a nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine
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   Adit
   Horizontal entrance to a mine, slightly inclined to allow drainage.
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   Adit
   A tunnel designed to extract materials, such as minerals or coal, from underground, or to drain existing mines by sloping slightly upwards from the entrance. Adits are therefore self-draining.
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   adit
   a nearly horizontal under inlet Category: Building industry • additional access tunnels provided to reach inside of a main tunnel for construction,repair and maintenance purposes.It may also apply to an access tunnel within concrete structures,such as dams and spillways. Category: Building industry • tunnels driven from the bottom or some distance down shafts or wells sunk ...
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   Adit
   Ad'it noun [ Latin aditus , from adire , ...aitum , to go to; ad + ire to go.] 1. An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel . 2. Admission; approach; access. [ R.] « Yourself and yours shall have ...
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   adit
   noun a nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine
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   Adit
   An `adit` is a type of entrance to an underground mine which is horizontal or nearly horizontal. Adits are usually built into the side of a hill or mountain, and often occur when a measure of coal or an ore body is located inside the mountain but above the adjacent valley floor or coastal plain. The use of adits is generally called drift mining. Adits have many advantages over conventional shaft mining with vertical access shafts. Less energy is...
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   Adit
   • (n.) An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel. • (n.) Admission; approach; access.
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    adit
    a horizontal or near-horizontal passage driven from the Earth`s surface into the side of a ridge or mountain for the purpose of working, ventilating, ... [3 related articles]
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    Adit
    A nearly horizontal passage from the surface by which a mine is entered and dewatered. A blind horizontal opening into a mountain, with only one entrance.
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    adit
    adit (ăd'it) , in mining, underground passage excavated nearly horizontally, with one end open to the earth's surface, usually used to service a mine. The adit end is the furthermost end from the surface, i.e., the location where miners work. The adit collar is the area where an adit opens...
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