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 .
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- 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
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Examples
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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
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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
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Peste tot o sondă Vnm stabileşte, trebuie să ia materiilor prime în care constată acolo şi să producă mai mult Vnm sonde.
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Acesta trebuie să construiască aceste sonde noi perfect.
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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).
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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.
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Swindle uses satellite temperature values that match radio-sonde data well but may not match the surface measurements as well as some would like.
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Instead of dropping a sonde, the pilot drops the entire airplane from 30,000 feet to 500 feet.
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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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Mais il en profite pour lancer une sonde systématique sur les contenus en testant sur quelques grands classiques.
Echo / écho — Slaw 2005
glypheme commented on the word sonde
A message or something sent.
"She kneeleth downe and thanketh Goddes sonde." — Chaucer, "Man of Lawes Tale"
March 15, 2014