Sounding
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Sounding generally refers to a mechanism of probing the environment by sending out some kind of stimulus.[1] The term derives from the ancient practice of determining the depth of water (making a sounding) by feeding out a line with a weight at the end.
In biology, organisms employ a variety of sensory modalities for sounding: touch (antennae, whiskers), vibration (spiders), electrical (fish), chemical (Phycomyces blakesleeanus), temperature (diving reflex), and perhaps light (flashlight fish).
Sounding can refer to:
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- 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
- In medicine and surgery, any use of a Sound (medical instrument), such as
- various methods in geophysics:
- 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.
References
- ↑ Dusenbery, David B. (1992). Sensory Ecology, Chapter 12. W.H. Freeman., New York. ISBN 0-7167-2333-6.
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