Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various instruments, such as a radiosonde, used for measuring or testing physical conditions.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as sand.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any of various devices for testing physical conditions, often for remote or underwater locations.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French sonde, sounding line, probe, Old French, sounding line, from Old English sund(rāp), sounding (line), from sund, sea.]

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Examples

  • Simultaneously, it stopped every 100 meters (328 feet) to lower a package of scientific instruments, known as a "sonde," down through the water column to collect data on temperature, salinity, pH, and several biological indicators.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010

  • Simultaneously, it stopped every 100 meters (328 feet) to lower a package of scientific instruments, known as a "sonde," down through the water column to collect data on temperature, salinity, pH, and several biological indicators.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • Peste tot o sondă Vnm stabileşte, trebuie să ia materiilor prime în care constată acolo şi să producă mai mult Vnm sonde.

    ideonexus.com »2007» martie 2007

  • Acesta trebuie să construiască aceste sonde noi perfect.

    ideonexus.com »2007» martie 2007

  • Given the results of the current versions of the data sets and experiments presented here, we see that all (except RSS and one RSS-adjusted sonde experiment) indicate trends for the tropical lower troposphere that are less than that of the surface (+0.125 K decade−1).

    Unthreaded #19 « Climate Audit 2007

  • Am trimis sonde de la marginea sistemului nostru solar şi dincolo de aceasta, avem o bula de transmisii de televiziune cu o rază de aproape 60 de ani-lumină de la completarea planeta noastră, şi am realizat acest lucru în termen de doar câteva milenii de formare a civilizaţiei şi doar 50000 ani de migrare din Africa.

    ideonexus.com »2007» martie 2007

  • Swindle uses satellite temperature values that match radio-sonde data well but may not match the surface measurements as well as some would like.

    The Swindle Complaint and Myles Allen « Climate Audit 2007

  • Instead of dropping a sonde, the pilot drops the entire airplane from 30,000 feet to 500 feet.

    Emanuel 2005 Figure 2 « Climate Audit 2006

  • Mais il en profite pour lancer une sonde systématique sur les contenus en testant sur quelques grands classiques.

    Echo / écho — Slaw 2005

  • Mais il en profite pour lancer une sonde systématique sur les contenus en testant sur quelques grands classiques.

    Echo / écho — Slaw 2005

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    "She kneeleth downe and thanketh Goddes sonde." — Chaucer, "Man of Lawes Tale"

    March 15, 2014