Assertion: adit | /r/HasProperty | horizontal passage
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text: ADIT (Lat. aditus, entrance), a horizontal passage made into mines for the purpose of draining them, and also for the extraction of their products at the lowest convenient level.
text: Note; an adit is a horizontal shaft driven in from the cliff.
text: An adit is a more or less horizontal opening, giving access to the shaft of a mine.
text: An adit is a horizontal passage excavated into a hillside, whereas an incline is a sloping passage excavated inward from a hillside.
text: Preliminary work for Phase 2 has already been completed this year, including road infrastructure which gives contractors access to the Heretzski adits at the 8km mark (an adit is a horizontal passage bored for the purposes of access or drainage).
text: (An adit is a horizontal passage for the purposes of access or drainage in an underground site.)
text: The tunnel is composed of two portions: the adit (horizontal passage), which passes entirely through frozen silts, and the winze (inclined adit), which extends off of one side down 45 meters passing through silts, a gravel layer, and then into bedrock.
text: Note; an adit is a horizontal shaft driven in from the cliff.