: 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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Explosives are used in construction blasting to fracture rock around boreholes during tunnel excavation.
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Stuart Dyos, Nashville Tennessean, 4 Nov. 2025
The resulting vapor escapes upward through a narrow borehole just wide enough for gas and dust samples to be collected.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 30 Oct. 2025
Baltzer’s Deep Isolation specializes in deep borehole technology, a method long seen as a viable way to permanently ditch nuclear waste.
—Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 29 Oct. 2025
Cooling the missile during flight could require bulking up its reactor to accommodate boreholes for airflow.
—Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2025
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Stuart Dyos, Nashville Tennessean, 4 Nov. 2025
The resulting vapor escapes upward through a narrow borehole just wide enough for gas and dust samples to be collected.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 30 Oct. 2025
Baltzer’s Deep Isolation specializes in deep borehole technology, a method long seen as a viable way to permanently ditch nuclear waste.
—Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 29 Oct. 2025
Cooling the missile during flight could require bulking up its reactor to accommodate boreholes for airflow.
—Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2025
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“Borehole.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/borehole. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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