Sounding

Sounding generally refers to a mechanism of probing the environment by sending out some kind of stimulus.

Sounding or soundings may refer to:

• Soundings (journal), an academic journal of leftist political thinking
• "Soundings" (radio drama), science fiction radio drama series produced from 1985 to 1989 in Ottawa
• Whale sounding, the act of diving by whales

Medicine and surgery

• Sound (medical instrument), instruments for probing and dilating passages within the body
  • Urethral sounding, using sounds to increase the inner diameter of the urethra

Science and technology

• Depth sounding, a measurement of depth within a body of water
  • Sounding line, a weighted line for depth sounding
  • Echo sounding, a type of sonar for depth sounding
• Atmospheric sounding, a measurement of vertical distribution of physical properties of the atmospheric column
• Vertical electrical sounding (VES), a geophysical method for investigation of a geological medium
• Cone penetration test, a method used to determine the geotechnical engineering properties of soils
• Sounding rocket, an instrument-carrying rocket designed to take measurements and perform scientific experiments during sub-orbital flight

Telecommunications

• Ionospheric sounding, analysis of ionospheric-dependent radio propagation using a synchronized transmitter and receiver
• Automatic sounding, the testing of selected channels for quality by providing a very brief identifying transmission
• Automatic link establishment, the worldwide de facto standard for digitally initiating and sustaining HF radio communications

See also

• Sound (disambiguation)
• Sonde (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "Sounding"