Taxonomy vs Spudding - What's the difference?
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As nouns the difference between taxonomy and spudding is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while spudding is (drilling) the initial drilling of a well; a test drilling. As a verb spudding is .
taxonomy Noun
(taxonomies)
The science or the technique used to make a classification.
A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
(taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
Synonyms
* alpha taxonomy
Derived terms
* folk taxonomy
* scientific taxonomy
See also
* classification
* rank
* taxon
* domain
* kingdom
* subkingdom
* superphylum
* phylum
* subphylum
* class
* subclass
* infraclass
* superorder
* order
* suborder
* infraorder
* parvorder
* superfamily
* family
* subfamily
* genus
* species
* subspecies
* superregnum
* regnum
* subregnum
* superphylum
* phylum
* subphylum
* classis
* subclassis
* infraclassis
* superordo
* ordo
* subordo
* infraordo
* taxon
* superfamilia
* familia
* subfamilia
* ontology
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spudding English
Noun
( en noun)
(drilling) The initial drilling of a well; a test drilling.
* 1941 , James George Needham, Paul Bigelow Sears, Aldo Leopold, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, A Symposium on Hydrobiology , page 36 ,
- From these spuddings' the approximate percentage loss of capacity can be estimated, but no reliable volume figures are obtained because the exact location of the ' spuddings is not known, and the area of the lake is seldom accurately known.
* 1963 , , page 26 ,
- Of the 21 holes the small consortium drilled, all of them proved to be dry except two promising spuddings in Libya during 1958.
* 1998 , Society of Petroleum Engineers of , Proceedings [of The] Drilling Conference , page 428 ,
- On the first two spuddings a standard rotary bottom hole assembly was used and was unsuccessful because of(sic) top hole deviations between 4 and 6 degrees were measured.
Verb
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