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Reconnaissance vs Prospecting - What's the difference?

reconnaissance | prospecting |

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

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reconnaissance

English

(wikipedia reconnaissance)

Alternative forms

* recce (abbreviation) * recon (abbreviation)

Noun

  • The act of scouting or exploring (especially military or medical) to gain information.
  • * 1973 , Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama
    • 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.

    Related terms

    * reconnoiter, reconnoitre ----

    prospecting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who prospects.
  • * 1858 , William Howitt, Land, Labour, and Gold; Or, Two Years in Victoria (page 54)
    • 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.