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• Sounding — can refer to:*Determination of the depth of water usually in the sea. Originally using a weighted line called a lead line, more recently using **Echo sounding *Whale sounding, the act of diving by whales *an atmospheric sounding *various methods… …   Wikipedia

• Sounding rocket — A sounding rocket, sometimes called a research rocket, is an instrument carrying rocket designed to take measurements and perform scientific experiments during its sub orbital flight. The origin of the term comes from nautical vocabulary, it… …   Wikipedia

• Sounding board — The sounding board or soundboard is the part of a string instrument that transmits the vibrations of the strings to the air, greatly increasing the loudness of sound over that of the string alone.The sounding board operates by the principal of… …   Wikipedia

• sounding rocket — a rocket equipped with instruments for making meteorological observations in the upper atmosphere. [1940 45] * * * also called  Probe Rocket,         any unmanned rocket that is designed to probe atmospheric conditions and structure at heights… …   Universalium

• sounding — sounding1 soundingly, adv. soundingness, n. /sown ding/, adj. 1. emitting or producing a sound or sounds. 2. resounding or sonorous. 3. having an imposing sound; high sounding; pompous. n. 4. a verbal contest or confrontation, as among teenage… …   Universalium

• sounding — I sound•ing [[t]ˈsaʊn dɪŋ[/t]] adj. 1) emitting or producing a sound or sounds 2) resounding or sonorous 3) high sounding; pompous 4) signifying • Etymology: 1350–1400 sound′ing•ly, adv. II sound•ing [[t]ˈsaʊn dɪŋ[/t]] n. 1) naut. navig. Often,… …   From formal English to slang

• Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit — The Advanced microwave sounding unit (AMSU) is a multi channel microwave radiometer installed on meteorological satellites. The instrument examines several bands of microwave radiation from the atmosphere to perform atmospheric sounding of… …   Wikipedia

• Radio acoustic sounding system — A radio acoustic sounding system (RASS) is a system for measuring the atmospheric lapse rate using backscattering of radio waves from an acoustic wave front to measure the speed of sound at various heights above the ground. This is possible… …   Wikipedia

• Global horizontal sounding technique — The Global horizontal sounding technique (GHOST) program was an atmospheric field research project for gathering weather data with balloons. Unlike radiosonde balloons which collect vertical atmospheric sounding data over the release point during …   Wikipedia

• Echo sounding — pulses directed from the surface or from a submarine vertically down to measure the distance to the bottom by means of sound waves. HistoryAfter the disaster of the Titanic in 1912, the German physicist Alexander Behm conducted some research to… …   Wikipedia

• Ionospheric sounding — In telecommunication and radio science, an ionospheric sounding is a technique that provides real time data on high frequency ionospheric dependent radio propagation, using a basic system consisting of a synchronized transmitter and receiver. The …   Wikipedia