| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ad·it |
| PRONUNCIATION: | d t |
| NOUN: | An almost horizontal entrance to a mine. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin aditus, access, from past participle of ad re, to approach : ad-, ad- + re, to go; see ei- in Appendix I.
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