exploration
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French exploration, from Latin exploratio
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NounEdit
exploration (countable and uncountable, plural explorations)
- The process of exploring.
- The process of penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of (especially geographical) discovery.
- The exploration of unknown areas was often the precursor to colonization.
- A physical examination.
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TranslationsEdit
act of exploring
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penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of (especially geographical) discovery
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physical examination — see physical examination
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FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
exploration f (plural explorations)
- An exploration
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Further readingEdit
- “exploration” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).