borehole
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noun Mining.
a hole drilled in the earth, as for the purpose of extracting a core, releasing gas, oil, water, etc.
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| a hole driven into the ground to obtain geological information, release water, etc | |
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Borehole
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
Example sentences
Borehole quality deteriorates with time after drilling.
Hockey sticks are also seen in borehole, stalagmite and ice cores bing.
Cold water is pumped down a deep borehole and returns superheated to spin a turbine.
When the primer is the first cartridge or one of the first cartridges to be loaded into the borehole, it is called bottom priming.
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