exploration
/ˌɛkspləˈɹeɪʃən/
exploration noun: the process of exploring.
Noun
exploration (countable and uncountable, plural explorations)
- The process of exploring.
- By this time, largely inspired by The Railway Magazine, I had begun to spread my wings, and had started on a long career of railway exploration.1957 July, M. D. Greville, “A Diamond Jubilee of Railway Memories”, in Railway Magazine, page 459
- 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.
- A physical examination of a patient.
exploration meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
exploration in Tamil
- புத்தாய்வு
exploration in Urdu
- دریافت, انکشاف
exploration in Bengali
- অন্বেষণ, অনুসন্ধান, গবেষণা, বিশ্লেষণ, তত্ত্বানুসন্ধান, পরীক্ষা
exploration in Malayalam
- exploration
- പര്യവേഷണം paryavēṣaṇaṁ, പര്യവേക്ഷണം paryavēkṣaṇaṁ
More languagesFewer languages
- exploration in Kannada
- ತಡಕಾಟ
- exploration in Gujarati
- અન્વેષણ
- exploration in Tagalog
- panggagalugad, eksplorasyon
- exploration in Arabic
- اِسْتِكْشَاف istikšāf
- exploration in Malay
- penjelajahan, penerokaan
- exploration in Indonesian
- eksplorasi
- exploration in Persian
- کاوش kâvoš, اکتشاف ektešâf
Examples of exploration in a sentence
- The 20th century saw humanity's first space exploration.
- Biosphere 2 was a scientific enterprise aimed at the exploration of the complex web of interactions within life systems.
- He was a pioneer in underwater exploration.
Forms of exploration
| plural | explorations |
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Origin of exploration
From Middle French exploration, from Latin exploratio. Morphologically explore + -ation.
Words formed from exploration
Words that rhyme with exploration
- station
- collation
- accommodation
- presentation
- derivation
- information
- modulation
- translation
- application
- fixation
- generation
- orientation
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- citation
- combination
- communication
- conjugation
- constellation
- determination
- elevation
- operation
- relation
- reservation
- alternation
- condensation
- conversation
- deviation
- excavation
- foliation
- formation
- foundation
- incarnation
- interpretation
- representation
- retardation
- speculation
- termination
- abbreviation
- adaptation
- articulation
- bifurcation
- concentration
- congregation
- declination
- degradation
- expectation
- extenuation
- gradation
- observation
- population
- preparation
- reconciliation
- rotation
- separation
- situation
- vexation
- vindication
- accumulation
- administration
- aggregation
- appropriation
Questions about exploration
- What does exploration mean?
- Exploration means the process of exploring.
- What is exploration in Tamil?
- Exploration in Tamil is புத்தாய்வு. See Exploration meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is exploration?
- Exploration is a noun.
- How do you pronounce exploration?
- Exploration is pronounced /ˌɛkspləˈɹeɪʃən/ (US).
- What is the plural of exploration?
- The plural of exploration is explorations.
Words near exploration in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: exploration (page history and authors); exploration (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); exploration (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); exploration (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); പര്യവേക്ഷണം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); exploration (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); exploration (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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