Reconnaissance vs Prospecting - What's the difference?
reconnaissance | prospecting |
The act of scouting or exploring (especially military or medical) to gain information.
* 1973 , Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama
The act of one who prospects.
* 1858 , William Howitt, Land, Labour, and Gold; Or, Two Years in Victoria (page 54)
As nouns the difference between reconnaissance and prospecting
is that reconnaissance is the act of scouting or exploring (especially military or medical) to gain information while prospecting is the act of one who prospects.As a verb prospecting is
.reconnaissance
English
(wikipedia reconnaissance)Alternative forms
* recce (abbreviation) * recon (abbreviation)Noun
- The third member, Sergeant Pieter Rousseau, had been with the back-up teams at the Hub; he was an expert on space reconnaissance instrumentation, but on this trip he would have to depend on his own eyes and a small portable telescope.
prospecting
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- He declared that the country was an intellectual desert; that he was famishing for spiritual aliment, and for discourse on matters beyond mere nuggets, prospectings , and the price of gold.