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Definition of Borehole

1. a hole bored in the earth [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Borehole

Literary usage of Borehole

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years by National Research Council (U.S.) (2006)
"borehole-based reconstructions also indicate an earlier persistent smaller warming of roughly 0.3°C from 1500 to 1850 (Pollack and Huang 2000, Huang et al. ..."

2. The Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake of October 17, 1989 edited by Thomas D. O'Rourke (1993)
"The acceleration-time history and response spectra at borehole M4 (fig. 4), in the center of the artificially filled Marina Cove that liquefied in 1989, ..."

3. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India by Geological Survey of India (1904)
"Ind., borehole at depths of 772 feet and 685 feet 9 ' ' inches; and those at 203 feet, 114 feet, and 37 feet in Dr. King's No. ..."

4. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1880)
"... MA, On the Effect of Convectivo Currents upon the Distribution of Heat in a borehole. This paper was supplementary to one read by the Author on Nov. ..."

5. Bulletin by Ghana Geological Survey (1898)
"The sites are illustrated on the site plan for borehole AS Agogo. ... This was thought to be an extremely good site as the borehole would probably intercept ..."

6. Transactions of the Manchester Geological Society by Manchester Geological Society (1805)
"The following paper by Mr. JOSEPH DICKINSON, FGS, on " Heaton Park borehole, near Manchester, with Notes on the surroundings," was read:— HEATON PARK ..."

7. Transactions by North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, Metallurgical Society of AIME. (1880)
"PRACTICAL WORKING OP THE INSTRUMENT. The instrument has only been practically tried in five boreholes, viz. :— in the borehole Sirius, ..."

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