Sounding or soundings may refer to:
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Sounding (archaeology)
A shovel test pit (STP) is a standard method for Phase I of an archaeological survey. It is usually a part of the Cultural Resources Management (CRM) methodology and a popular form of rapid archaeological survey in the United States of America a ...
, a test dig in archaeology
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"Sounding" (''Justified''), an episode of the TV series ''Justified''
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''Soundings'' (journal), an academic journal of leftist political thinking
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''Soundings'' (radio drama), science fiction radio drama series produced from 1985 to 1989 in Ottawa
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''Soundings'' (Williams), 2003 orchestral composition by John Williams
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''Soundings'' (Carter), 2005 orchestral composition by Elliott Carter
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Sound (medical instrument)
In medicine, a sound (), also called a sonde (), is an instrument for probing and dilating passages within the body, the best-known examples of which are urethral sounds and uterine sounds.
Urethral sounds
Urethral sounds are designed to be ...
, instruments for probing and dilating passages within the body
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Urethral sounding
Urethral sounding is the medical use of probes called sounds to increase the inner diameter of the urethra and to locate obstructions in it.
Risks
If not conducted carefully, sounding carries a risk of irritation, tearing of the urethra, or of ...
, using sounds to increase the inner diameter of the urethra
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Depth sounding
Depth sounding, often simply called sounding, is measuring the depth of a body of water. Data taken from soundings are used in bathymetry to make maps of the floor of a body of water, such as the seabed topography.
Soundings were traditionally ...
, a measurement of depth within a body of water
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Whale sounding
Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals. As an informal and colloquial grouping, they correspond to large members of the infraorder Cetacea, i.e. all cetaceans apart from dolphins and p ...
, the act of diving by whales
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Sound (disambiguation)
Sound is an audible mechanical wave propagating through matter, or the perception of such waves by the brain.
Sound or Sounds may also refer to:
Geography
* Sound (geography), a large ocean inlet, or a narrow ocean channel between two bodies o ...
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Sonde (disambiguation)
Sonde (French for ''probe'') may refer to:
Electronic probes
*CTD (instrument), a type of water quality sensor
*Ionosonde, a radar for examining the ionosphere
*Radiosonde, a piece of equipment used on weather balloons
* Rocketsonde, a sounding ro ...
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Sonar
Sonar (sound navigation and ranging or sonic navigation and ranging) is a technique that uses sound propagation (usually underwater, as in submarine navigation) to navigation, navigate, measure distances (ranging), communicate with or detect o ...
, use of sound propagation to navigate, communicate with or detect objects on or under water
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Remote sensing
Remote sensing is the acquisition of information about an object or phenomenon without making physical contact with the object, in contrast to in situ or on-site observation. The term is applied especially to acquiring information about Earth ...
, acquisition of information about an object or phenomenon without making physical contact with it
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Cone penetration test
The cone penetration or cone penetrometer test (CPT) is a method used to determine the geotechnical engineering properties of soils and delineating soil stratigraphy. It was initially developed in the 1950s at the Dutch Laboratory for Soil Mecha ...
, a method used to determine the geotechnical engineering properties of soils
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