Sounding can refer to:
- Depth sounding, the determination of the depth of water usually in the sea.
- Originally using a weighted line called a lead line
- More recently using Echo sounding
- Whale sounding, the act of diving by whales
- an atmospheric sounding
- various methods in telecommunications
- Ionospheric sounding
- Automatic sounding
- Automatic link establishment
- In medicine and surgery, any use of a Sound (medical instrument), such as
- Urethral sounding
- various methods in geophysics:
- vertical electrical sounding (VES), see Schlumberger brothers
- electromagnetic sounding
- sounding rockets which take measurements during suborbital flight
- Tank sounding, a means of determining the quantity of fluid inside a tank by measuring the height of its surface from the bottom of a tank.
Famous quotes containing the word sounding:
“The sounding cataract
Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock,
The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood,
Their colours and their forms, were then to me
An appetite: a feeling and a love,
That had no need of a remoter charm,
By thought supplied, or any interest
Unborrowed from the eye.—”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“The irresponsive silence of the land,
The irresponsive sounding of the sea,
Speak both one message of one sense to me:—
‘Aloof, aloof, we stand aloof,”
—Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)
“The middle years are ones in which children increasingly face conflicts on their own,... One of the truths to be faced by parents during this period is that they cannot do the work of living and relating for their children. They can be sounding boards and they can probe with the children the consequences of alternative actions.”
—Dorothy H. Cohen (20th century)