sondage - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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Borrowed from French sondage (“survey, sounding”).
sondage (plural sondages)
- (archaeology) A small test excavation or test pit to examine the stratigraphy of a site; a deeper investigation of a small part of a larger trench.
test excavation
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: koekaivaus
- Spanish: sondeo (es) m
sondage m (plural sondages)
- poll, survey
- (medicine) probing, probe, catheterization
- (technology) boring, drilling
- (nautical, meteorology) sounding
- “sondage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.