Sounding can refer to:
- 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
- Ionospheric sounding
- Automatic sounding
- Automatic link establishment
- In medicine and surgery, any use of a Sound (medical instrument), such as
- Urethral sounding
- various methods in geophysics:
- vertical electrical sounding (VES), see Schlumberger brothers
- electromagnetic sounding
- 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.
Famous quotes containing the word sounding:
“It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, “They lived happily ever after” and the following quarter-century warning that they’ll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know it just might work.”
—Nora Ephron (b. 1941)
“Mathematics: silent harmonies. Music: sounding numbers.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Prayer the Churches banquet, Angels age,
Gods breath in man returning to his birth,
The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,
The Christian plummet sounding heav’n and earth;”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)