dredging

English

Verb

dredging

present participle and gerund of dredge

Noun

dredging (plural dredgings)

That which is dredged up.
- 2011, John P. Rafferty, Oceans and Oceanography, page 189:
  Soundings showed wide variations in depths of water, and from the dredgings of the bottom came new types of sediment […]
(uncountable) The act of using a dredger or excavator to dredge a harbour, river, channel or watercourse.

Derived terms

data dredging

Translations

that which is dredged up

French: dragage (fr)
Italian: dragaggio m
Portuguese: dragagem (pt)

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