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excavation
 
Noun excavation has 4 senses
  1. excavation, digging, dig - the act of digging; "there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton"
    --1 is a kind of creating by removal
    Derived forms: verb excavate1, verb excavate2
  2. dig, excavation, archeological site - the site of an archeological exploration; "they set up camp next to the dig"
    --2 is a kind of site, land site
    --2 has particulars: Byblos
    Derived forms: verb excavate1, verb excavate2
  3. excavation, hole in the ground - a hole in the ground made by excavating
    --3 is a kind of artifact, artefact
    --3 has particulars:
     bore, bore-hole, drill hole; delf; ditch; mine; mineshaft; pit, quarry, stone pit; pool; root cellar, cellar; well; working, workings
    Derived forms: verb excavate1, verb excavate3, verb excavate4, verb excavate2
  4. mining, excavation - the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth
    --4 is a kind of production
    --4 has particulars: placer mining; strip mining, opencast mining
    Derived form: verb excavate4
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