English-Portuguese translations for excavation

• escavação
  Essa obra de escavação mecânica custará certamente 20 biliões. This mechanical excavation work would certainly cost 20 billion.
  São emitidas quantidades consideráveis de CO2 durante a escavação das fundações, a construção das infra-estruturas e das estradas e no fabrico dos cabos. There are substantial amounts of CO2 which are emitted in the excavation of foundations, infrastructure, roads and cablings.
  A maquinaria de escavação subterrânea está a abrir um fosso para a nação iraniana, se Israel não mantiver a calma face ao espectro de um segundo êxodo, e também para a Europa e para todo o mundo. European deep excavation machinery is digging a hole both for the Iranian nation, if Israel fails to hold its nerve faced with the spectre of a second exodus, and also for Europe and the whole world.

Definition of excavation

• The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass
• An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel
• Archaeological research that unearths buildings, tombs and objects of historical value

Related words

• excavation site
• excavation plot
• excavation permit
• test excavation