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adit: a nearly horizontal under inlet
Category: Building industry

adit: 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

adit: tunnels driven from the bottom or some distance down shafts or wells sunk in fissured and porous rocks; they intercept the water from the waterbearing fissures and lead it to the sump or well
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

adit: tunnel into an abutment for exploratory or test purposes; 2)opening in the face of a dam for access to galleries or operating chambers
Category: Building industry

adit: access tunnel to a tunnel for construction or maintenance purposes
Category: Building industry

andradite: variety of garnet
Category: Various industries and crafts

tradition-directed: abstract or ideal type of society which develops in its typical members a social character whose conformity is ensured by their tendency to follow tradition
Category: Man and society

traditional: includes estimates of the consumption of fuelwood,charcoal,bagasse,and animal and vegetable wastes
Category: Statistics

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