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exploratorium

exploratorium noun: a museum or similar institution that encourages visitors to explore the exhibits in a hands-on manner.

exploratorium: a museum or similar institution that encourages visitors to explore the exhibits in a hands-on...
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Noun

exploratorium (plural exploratoriums or exploratoria)

  1. A museum or similar institution that encourages visitors to explore the exhibits in a hands-on manner.
    • Especially appealing to older children and adolescents are science museums or exploratoriums.1999, Howard Gardner, Intelligence reframed: multiple intelligences for the 21st century
    • Other ways to use the visual arts include architecture, visual thinking, graphic organizers, mindmaps, exploratoriums, and galleries.2001, Eric Jensen, Arts with the brain in mind

exploratorium meaning in Tamil

exploratorium in Tamil

செய்காட்சியகம், மெய்த்தேர்வுக் காட்சியகம், செய்தேர்வகம்

Forms of exploratorium

pluralexploratoriums
pluralexploratoria

Origin of exploratorium

From the Exploratorium in San Francisco, which holds a trademark on the term.

Questions about exploratorium

What does exploratorium mean?
Exploratorium means a museum or similar institution that encourages visitors to explore the exhibits in a hands-on manner.
What is exploratorium in Tamil?
Exploratorium in Tamil is செய்காட்சியகம், மெய்த்தேர்வுக் காட்சியகம், செய்தேர்வகம். See Exploratorium meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is exploratorium?
Exploratorium is a noun.
What is the plural of exploratorium?
The plural of exploratorium is exploratoriums.

Words near exploratorium in the dictionary

  1. explorator
  2. exploratoria
  3. exploratories
  4. exploratorily
  5. exploratoriness
  6. exploratorium
  7. exploratoriums
  8. explorators
  9. exploratory
  10. exploratory committee
  11. exploratory committees

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: exploratorium (page history and authors); exploratorium (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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