exploration

Contents

English

Etymology

From Middle French exploration, from Latin exploratio

Pronunciation

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

Noun

exploration (countable and uncountable, plural explorations)

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

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

2. A physical examination.

Related terms

• explorative
• exploratory
• explorer

Translations

act of exploring

• Arabic: اِسْتِكْشَاف‎ m (istikšāf)
• Belarusian: дасле́даванне n (dasljédavannje)
• Bulgarian: изследване (bg) n (izsledvane)
• Catalan: exploració f
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: průzkum m
• Dutch: verkenning (nl) f, exploratie (nl)
• Esperanto: esplorado
• Finnish: tutkiminen (fi), tutkimus (fi), tutkimusmatka (fi)
• French: exploration (fr) f
• German: Erkundung (de) f
• Hungarian: felfedezés (hu)
• Italian: esplorazione (it) f

• Japanese: 探検 (ja) (たんけん, tanken), 探査 (たんさ, tansa), 精査 (せいさ, seisa), 探究 (たんきゅう, tankyū)
• Korean: 탐험 (tamheom), 탐사 (tamsa), 답사 (ko) (dapsa), 탐구 (tamgu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: utforskning m or f

• Persian: اکتشاف‎ (fa) (ektešâf)
• Portuguese: exploração (pt) f
• Romanian: explorare (ro) f
• Russian: иссле́дование (ru) n (isslédovanije), изуче́ние (ru) n (izučénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: rannsachadh m
• Slovak: prieskum m
• Spanish: exploración f
• Swedish: utforskning c
• Turkish: keşif (tr)
• Ukrainian: дослі́дження (uk) n (doslídžennja), дослі́джування n (doslídžuvannja)

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

• Bulgarian: проучване (bg) n (proučvane)
• Dutch: exploratie (nl), ontdekkingsreis (nl), ontdekkingstocht

• Swedish: upptäcktsresa (sv) c

physical examination — see physical examination

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Translations to be checked

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

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

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.splɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/

Noun

exploration f (plural explorations)

1. An exploration

Related terms

• explorateur m
• exploratif

Further reading

• “exploration” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).