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Meaning of excavation

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  excavation
      n 1: the act of digging; "there's an interesting excavation
           going on near Princeton" [syn: {excavation}, {digging},
           {dig}]
      2: the site of an archeological exploration; "they set up camp
         next to the dig" [syn: {dig}, {excavation}, {archeological
         site}]
      3: a hole in the ground made by excavating
      4: the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth [syn:
         {mining}, {excavation}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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