exploration

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: ĕks’plərā′shən, IPA^(key): /ˌɛkspləˈɹeɪʃən/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

exploration (countable and uncountable, plural explorations)

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

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

3. The (pre-)mining process of finding and determining commercially viable ore deposits (after prospecting), also called mineral exploration.
4. (medicine) A physical examination of a patient.

Derived terms

• space exploration
• urban exploration

 

Related terms

• explorative
• exploratory
• explorer

Translations

act of exploring

• Albanian: eksplorim (sq) m
• Arabic: اِسْتِكْشَاف m (istikšāf)
• Armenian: հետազոտություն (hy) (hetazotutʻyun), ուսումնասիրություն (hy) (usumnasirutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: tədqiqat (az), kəşfiyyat
• Belarusian: дасле́даванне n (dasljédavannje), дасле́дванне n (dasljédvannje)
• Bulgarian: изсле́дване (bg) n (izslédvane)
• Catalan: exploració f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 勘探 (zh) (kāntàn), 勘察 (zh) (kānchá)

• Czech: průzkum (cs) m
• Danish: udforskning c, undersøgelse c
• Dutch: verkenning (nl) f, exploratie (nl)
• Esperanto: esplorado
• Estonian: uurimine
• Finnish: tutkiminen (fi), tutkimus (fi), tutkimusmatka (fi)
• French: exploration (fr) f
• Georgian: გამოკვლევა (gamoḳvleva)
• German: Erkundung (de) f, Erforschung (de) f, Untersuchung (de) f
• Greek: εξερεύνηση (el) f (exerévnisi)
• Hungarian: felfedezés (hu)
• Indonesian: eksplorasi (id)
• Italian: esplorazione (it) f
• Japanese: 探検 (ja) (たんけん, tanken), 探査 (ja) (たんさ, tansa), 精査 (ja) (せいさ, seisa), 探究 (ja) (たんきゅう, tankyū)
• Korean: 탐험(探險) (tamheom), 탐사(探査) (tamsa), 답사(踏査) (ko) (dapsa), 탐구(探究) (tamgu)
• Latvian: pētījums m
• Lithuanian: tyrinėjimas m
• Macedonian: истражување n (istražuvanje)
• Malay: penjelajahan, penerokaan
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: судалгаа (mn) (sudalgaa)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: utforskning m or f, utforsking m or f

  Nynorsk: utforsking f

• Persian: کاوش (fa) (kâvoš), اکتشاف (fa) (ektešâf)
• Polish: eksploracja (pl) f, badanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: exploração (pt) f
• Romanian: explorare (ro) f
• Russian: иссле́дование (ru) n (isslédovanije), изуче́ние (ru) n (izučénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: rannsachadh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: истражи́ва̄ње n

  Roman: istražívānje (sh) n

• Slovak: prieskum m
• Slovene: raziskovanje n
• Spanish: exploración f
• Swedish: utforskning c
• Tajik: иктишоф (iktišof), тадкиқ (tadkiq), таҳқиқ (tahqiq), тафтиш (taftiš)
• Turkish: keşif (tr)
• Ukrainian: дослі́дження (uk) n (doslídžennja), дослі́джування n (doslídžuvannja)
• Uzbek: tekshirish (uz)

penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of (especially geographical) discovery

• Bulgarian: проу́чване (bg) n (proúčvane)
• Danish: udforskning c, opdagelse c
• Dutch: exploratie (nl), ontdekkingsreis (nl), ontdekkingstocht
• Finnish: löytöretki (fi), tutkimusretki, tutkimusmatka (fi)
• German: Entdeckungsreise (de) f, Erkundung (de) f, Erforschung (de) f
• Indonesian: eksplorasi (id)
• Swedish: upptäcktsresa (sv) c

geological (mineral) exploration

• German: Exploration (de) f

physical examination — see physical examination

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• French: ^{(please verify)} exploration (fr) f
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} exploración f

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.splɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

exploration f (plural explorations)

1. exploration

Derived terms

• exploration de données

Related terms

• explorateur m
• exploratif

Further reading

• “exploration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.