mining
The activity of removing valuable resources (often minerals) from the earth.
Example
“gold mining”
Other meanings
Any activity that extracts or undermines.
“His extensive mining for apparently statistically significant results made any of his results questionable.”
The activity of placing mines (the explosive devices).
Synonyms
- excavation
Related words
- antimining
- biomining
- coalmining
- cryptomining
- duomining
- hydromining
- nonmining
- postmining
- data mining
- defensive mining
- demining
- knowledge mining
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “mining” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.