Noun:

அகம் அணுகு சுரங்கம்,

adits's Usage Examples:

The mines are, in general, situated on the slopes of the hills and are easily opened up by adits.

At the same time provision must be made for the integration of knowledge as well as for the winning of it by several adits.

The species associated with mining adits are threatened by capping.

As already noted large pillars must always be left to protect shafts, adits and the more important mine-passages necessary for drainage, ventilation and the haulage of mineral.

i and 2 illustrate the development of a metal-vein by two adits, two inclined shafts in the lode, and by a deep vertical shaft connected with the lode by horizontal cross cuts.

In practice it is usual in chalk formations to imitate artificially the action of such underground watercourses, by driving from the well small tunnels, or " adits " as they are called, below the water-level, to intercept fissures and water-bearing beds, and thus to extend the collecting area.

Large pillars of mineral should be left for the protection of the main openings, whether these be shafts or adits.

And it is not only the perceptions of eye or ear which tell, but also the association of concepts behind these adits of the mind.

Cars may thus be run through long adits or through branch gangways to some central point for making up into trains.

of the main well in depth or diameter, or by boreholes or adits.

In mines that are worked from the outcrop by adits or day levels traction by locomotives driven by steam, compressed air or electricity is used to some extent.