adit

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La Escondida adit was historically driven following a quartz vein in the volcanic rocks.

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  1. noun An almost horizontal entrance to a mine.

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  • An old ore car still sat on a set of rusty tracks coming out of an adit, like a Disney prop. —  AnalogSFF,May2007
  • Each circle identifies an adit - an opening into a tunnel where China conducted nuclear tests during the 1990s. —  ArmsControlWonk
  • Gertz reported that the Chinese conducted a subcritical experiment in June 1999, before the new adit area was constructed, suggesting they probably either branched off an older tunnel or conducted the test someplace else at Lop Nor. —  ArmsControlWonk
  • Quite frankly, adit, you sound like a person who is intolerant and a bigot. —  The Christian Post RSS Feed
  • Each of these is a different action, and each improvement either increases the production capacity of a mine (miner, port or train), increases the amount of copper and tin in an area (adit), or reduces the number of water cubes in an area (port, pumps or train). —  Boardgame News
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  1. Latin aditus, access, from past participle of adīre, to approach : ad-, ad- + īre, to go; see ei- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin aditus, an approach, from adire, past participle aditus, approach, from ad, to, + ire, go: see itinerant. Cf. exit.
 

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