1
: furrowed or drained by trenches
2
: provided with protective trenches
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Some of Kuroda’s earlier CMOS image sensor chips, which used planar rather than trenched capacitors, are already on the market in ultrahigh speed cameras (HPV X and X2 models) made by Shimadzu.
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IEEE Spectrum, 16 Dec. 2016
Canton Street, Good Latimer Expressway, Commerce Street, Main Street, Elm Street, Cesar Chavez Boulevard, Pacific Avenue, Live Oak Street and Ross Avenue would cross over the trenched highway, connecting Deep Ellum to the rest of the city.
—Dallas News, 24 May 2022
As a divider between the lawn and garden beds, edging can be as simple as a trenched edge or a shallow, V-shape ditch.
—Kelly Roberson, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Sep. 2022
At the trenched front line the next day, soldiers sat around jars of borscht and cured lard that volunteers had brought them.
—Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
Technically, the ditches are considered Oakmont’s only water hazards, even if the fast-moving groundwater rarely remains in the trenched channels long enough to puddle.
—Bill Pennington, New York Times, 11 June 2016
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IEEE Spectrum, 16 Dec. 2016
Canton Street, Good Latimer Expressway, Commerce Street, Main Street, Elm Street, Cesar Chavez Boulevard, Pacific Avenue, Live Oak Street and Ross Avenue would cross over the trenched highway, connecting Deep Ellum to the rest of the city.
—Dallas News, 24 May 2022
As a divider between the lawn and garden beds, edging can be as simple as a trenched edge or a shallow, V-shape ditch.
—Kelly Roberson, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Sep. 2022
At the trenched front line the next day, soldiers sat around jars of borscht and cured lard that volunteers had brought them.
—Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
Technically, the ditches are considered Oakmont’s only water hazards, even if the fast-moving groundwater rarely remains in the trenched channels long enough to puddle.
—Bill Pennington, New York Times, 11 June 2016
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“Trenched.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trenched. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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