Crossword clues for sonde
sonde
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sond \Sond\, Sonde \Sonde\, n. [AS. sand. See Send, v. t.]
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That which is sent; a message or messenger; hence, also, a visitation of providence; an affliction or trial. [Obs.]
Ye have enough, parde, of Goddes sond.
--Chaucer. (Rocketry) a rocket or balloon sent into the upper atmosphere to measure atmospheric conditions or other phenomena at altitudes unattainable by aircraft.
Wiktionary
n. Any of various devices for testing physical conditions, often for remote or underwater locations.
Wikipedia
Sonde is a music design and performance ensemble based in Montreal. From 1975 to about 1985, Sonde gave hundreds of performances in North America and Europe on sound sources of their own invention. Sonde was also engaged in television, film, and dance (particularly contact improvisation).
A Sonde (Sonde is French for probe) is a water quality monitoring instrument, that may be stationary or may move up and down a water column, measuring water attributes including temperature, conductivity, salinity, dissolved oxygen, pH, turbidity, and depth.
Sonde may refer to:
- Sonde (electronics), a type of water quality sensor
- Sonde (music group), a music design and performance ensemble based in Montreal
- Sonde, Togo, a town in Togo
- Sonde, Taungtha, a place in Taungtha Township, Burma (Myanmar)
- Sonde language, either of two Bantu languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Radiosonde, a piece of equipment used on weather balloons
Usage examples of "sonde".
The terminal point, where the sonde imploded, was only seventy thousand feet below Station K.
Assuming that the sensing element in the sonde had remained in proper calibration, that could mean a sudden flow of hotter and therefore less dense rock into an area under the station.
I was spotting in the converted readings on the sonde run a detachment of Sub-Sea Marines marched in.
Floating above it was a cluster of weather sonde balloons attached by thin wires.
There was a letter from sonde women who wanted a stop sign at their street corner.
Flocculence and Binding Force dropped sondes into the sludgy atmosphere and painfully built up a slow recognition of discrete sounds that was the first step toward a vocabulary.
The sondes were dropped more or less at random, aiming only at spots where the deep-probe radars and sonars had identified clusters of beings.
I had hesitated over including the radio sondes, especially the relatively heavy hydrogen cylinders for these: but they were ready crated with tents, ropes, axes and shovels and - this was the deciding factor - had saved lives on at least one occasion when a trail party, lost on the plateau with defective compasses, had saved themselves by releasing several balloons in the brief daylight hours thereby enabling base to see them and send accurate radio bearings.