: a hole bored or drilled in the earth: such as
a
: an exploratory well
b
chiefly British
: a small-diameter well drilled especially to obtain water
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During my trip, Moore’s corps of consultants and roughnecks were drilling the fifth borehole of their experimental project.
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Brent Crane, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2025
To tap into Earth’s energy, Eversource drilled 88 boreholes about 600 feet below ground and installed an intricate system of horizontal and vertical underground pipes.
—Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 20 Jan. 2025
In a new study published in Science this month, an international team of researchers lowered a fiber-optic cable almost one mile down into a borehole in the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS), the largest ice stream in the Greenland ice sheet.
—Ella Jeffries, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Feb. 2025
The system will essentially act as a giant loop of pipes and boreholes drilled deep into the bedrock, where temperatures remain relatively constant.
—John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 8 Feb. 2025
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Brent Crane, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2025
To tap into Earth’s energy, Eversource drilled 88 boreholes about 600 feet below ground and installed an intricate system of horizontal and vertical underground pipes.
—Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 20 Jan. 2025
In a new study published in Science this month, an international team of researchers lowered a fiber-optic cable almost one mile down into a borehole in the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS), the largest ice stream in the Greenland ice sheet.
—Ella Jeffries, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Feb. 2025
The system will essentially act as a giant loop of pipes and boreholes drilled deep into the bedrock, where temperatures remain relatively constant.
—John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 8 Feb. 2025
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“Borehole.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/borehole. Accessed 19 Mar. 2025.
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