dredging

English

Verb

dredging

1. present participle and gerund of dredge

Noun

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dredging

Wikipedia

dredging (plural dredgings)

1. That which is dredged up.
   • 2011, John P. Rafferty, Oceans and Oceanography, page 189:

     Soundings showed wide variations in depths of water, and from the dredgings of the bottom came new types of sediment […]

2. (uncountable) The act of using a dredger or excavator to dredge a harbour, river, channel or watercourse.

Derived terms

• data dredging

Translations

that which is dredged up

Catalan: dragatge m French: dragage (fr) Italian: dragaggio m Portuguese: dragagem (pt)