Meaning

4 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The process of exploring.

    Erkundung, Erforschung, Untersuchung

    иссле́дованиеisslédovanije, изуче́ниеizučénije

    дослі́дженняdoslídžennja, дослі́джуванняdoslídžuvannja

  2. (countable, uncountable)The process of penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of (especially geographical) discovery.

    The exploration of unknown areas was often the precursor to colonization.

    Entdeckungsreise, Erkundung, Erforschung

  3. (countable, uncountable)The (pre-)mining process of finding and determining commercially viable ore deposits (after prospecting), also called mineral exploration.

  4. (countable, uncountable)A physical examination of a patient.

    Exploration

More definitions
  • to travel for the purpose of discovery
  • a careful systematic search
  • a systematic consideration

Examples

69 sentences
  1. That's a sort of exploration challenge.

    ruЭто, в своём роде, вызов к исследованию.

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  2. That's a kind of exploration challenge.

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  3. Ziri talked about his exploration plants.

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  4. The government is funding space exploration.

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  5. What is the cost of exploration?

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
act of exploring:
Русский
By meaning 1
act of exploring:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
act of exploring:
penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of (especially geographical) discovery:
geological (mineral) exploration:

Origin

From Middle French exploration, from Latin exploratio. Morphologically explore + -ation.

From Middle French exploration, from Latin exploratio. Morphologically explore + -ation.

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Forms

plural: explorations
Singularexploration
Pluralexplorations

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

10 related words

See also

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