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excavation

noun
/ˌɛkskəˈveɪʃn/

Etymology

From Latin excavātiō (“a hollowing out”), from excavō (“to hollow out”), from ex + cavō (“to hollow out”), from cavus (“hollow”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- (“vault, hole”). Equivalent to excavate + -ion.

  1. derived from *ḱewh₁-✻
  2. borrowed from excavātiō

Definitions

  1. The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part…

    The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.

    • Near-synonyms: hollowing out, hollowing

  2. A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.

  3. An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.

  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.

      • […] to cart away the excavations from the work, and to recart the same back again so far as required to fill the trench over the sewer […]

    2. Archaeological research that unearths buildings, tombs and objects of historical value.

    3. A site where an archaeological exploration is being carried out.

    4. Something uncovered by archaeological excavation.

      • To date, [Taco's 1982 cover of Irving Berlin's 1935] "Cheek To Cheek" and similar auditory excavations have fared poorly.

    5. The act of discovering and exposing or developing (a quality).

      • Chua looks at the landscape of childhood rather like a mining engineer looks at a pristine landscape—ripe for the excavation of talent.
      • This Andrade, a lawyer, seemed to enjoy bureucratic process as much as Mário de Andrade valorized the enthnographic excavation of creativity.
      • In the same vein, Emirbayer and Desmond (2012) highlight the vital need for deeper scholarly reflexivity as regards race, advocating excavation of hidden presuppositions at social, disciplinary and scholastic levels.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at excavation. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at excavation. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at excavation

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA