exploration
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle French exploration, from Latin exploratio
Morphologically explore + -ation
Pronunciation Nounexploration
- 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.
- The (pre-)mining process of finding and determining commercially viable ore deposits (after prospecting), also called mineral exploration.
- (medicine) A physical examination of a patient.
- French: exploration
- German: Erkundung, Erforschung, Untersuchung
- Italian: esplorazione
- Portuguese: exploração
- Russian: иссле́дование
- Spanish: exploración
- German: Entdeckungsreise, Erkundung, Erforschung
- German: Exploration
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