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Webster 1913 Edition
Mining
Min′ing
,Adj.
Of or pertaining to mines;
as,
mining
engineer; mining
machinery; a mining
region.Mining engineering
. See the Note under
Engineering
.Webster 1828 Edition
Mining
MI'NING
,ppr.
1.
a. Designating the business of digging mines; as the mining districts of Siberia.Definition 2024
mining
mining
English
Noun
mining (countable and uncountable, plural minings)
- The activity of removing solid valuables from the earth.
- gold mining
- (figuratively) Any activity that extracts or undermines.
- His extensive mining for apparently statistically significant results made any of his results questionable.
- Jonathan Swift
- […] the fabrick, however weak by the delicacy of its composition, would not have fallen so soon, if the foundation had not been injured by the slow minings of regret and vexation.
- (military) The activity of placing explosives underground, rigged to explode
Derived terms
terms derived from mining
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Translations
activity of removing solid valuables from the earth
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military
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Verb
mining
- present participle of mine