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EXPLORATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
To travel for the purpose of discovery
Synonyms:
exploration; geographic expedition
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("exploration" is a kind of...):
expedition (a journey organized for a particular purpose)
Derivation:
explore (travel to or penetrate into)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A careful systematic search
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("exploration" is a kind of...):
hunt; hunting; search (the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "exploration"):
probe (an exploratory action or expedition)
Derivation:
explore (examine (organs) for diagnostic purposes)
explore (examine minutely)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A systematic consideration
Example:
he called for a careful exploration of the consequences
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("exploration" is a kind of...):
consideration (the process of giving careful thought to something)
Derivation:
explore (examine minutely)
explore (inquire into)
explore (travel to or penetrate into)
Context examples:
Characterizing cell-to-cell and intracellular variations in biochemistry is critical to understanding research that covers broad areas, including cancer, human development, cell biology, antibiotics exploration and environmental biology.
(Cell chemistry illuminated by laser light, National Science Foundation)
These discoveries will provide a new paradigm for using reconfigurable and programmable metasurfaces in many fields, from space exploration and robotics to medicine and microelectronics.
(Saddle-shaped origami enables new microelectronic applications, National Science Foundation)
The researchers hope further exploration of TOI 270 may help explain how two of these mini-Neptunes formed alongside a nearly Earth-size world.
(NASA’s TESS Mission Scores ‘Hat Trick’ With 3 New Worlds, NASA)
That flyby will be the most distant in the history of space exploration, a billion miles beyond Pluto.
(New Horizons' Next Target Just Got a Lot More Interesting, NASA)
The amount of delivered mass needed for human exploration could be greatly reduced by using Martian natural resources for a water supply and as raw material for producing hydrogen fuel.
(A Fresh Look at Older Data Yields a Surprise Near the Martian Equator, NASA)
You may have read of the remarkable explorations of a Norwegian named Sigerson, but I am sure that it never occurred to you that you were receiving news of your friend.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
These pollutants stem from chemical processes linked to oil exploration and transport, and are formed when coal, oil, wood, or tobacco is burned.
(Microplastic pollution adds to oceans’ problems, scidev.net)
Private space exploration company SpaceX has conducted its first successful launch since the explosion of a rocket on the launchpad in September.
(SpaceX Completes Successful Rocket Launch, VOA News)
If confirmed, this potential reservoir of frozen water on the Moon may be sufficiently massive to sustain long-term lunar exploration.
(The Moon and Mercury May Have Thick Ice Deposits, NASA)
The researchers suggest that these broadly neutralizing antibodies could provide the basis for a candidate treatment, but further exploration is needed.
(Antibodies from Ebola survivor protect mice and ferrets against related viruses, NIH)
