Usually means: Horizontal passage into a mine.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. adit: Merriam-Webster
  2. adit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. adit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. adit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. adit: Vocabulary.com
  6. ADit, Adit, adit: Wordnik
  7. adit: Wiktionary
  8. adit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. adit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. adit: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Adit, adit: Dictionary.com
  12. adit: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Adit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Adit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. adit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. adit: Rhymezone
  17. Adit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. adit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. adit: FreeDictionary.org
  20. adit: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. adit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. adit: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. adit: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adit: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adit: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ADIT: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adit: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Adit)

▸ noun:  A horizontal or nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine, as contrasted with a shaft or vertical entry passage. An adit may be used for ventilation, haulage, drainage, or other purposes.
▸ noun:  A diminutive of the male given name Aditya, from Sanskrit.

Similar:
hade, downwell, downtake, lade, dibhole, ductway, descending, DELF, drop shaft, dich, more...

Opposite:
exit, egress, departure

Types:
drift, level, decline, winze, raise, shaft, more...

Adjectives:
main, foot, lower, old, upper, short, new, deep, great, long, cathedram
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Similar:
hade, downwell, downtake, lade, dibhole, ductway, descending, DELF, drop shaft, dich, more...

Opposite:
exit, egress, departure

Types:
drift, level, decline, winze, raise, shaft, more...

Adjectives:
main, foot, lower, old, upper, short, new, deep, great, long, cathedram



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