explorers

Noun

explorer (plural explorers)

1. One who explores something
   • Sachs tries to remember how it felt not to walk around with this knot in his gut. He longs for his old lab in Connecticut, where the world was made of mathematics, energy, and atomic cascades, and he was its explorer. He has no business in these political orders of magnitude, where erroneous...2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 128
2. A person who by means of travel (notably an expedition) searches out new information.
   • The dream of a Northwest Passage lured European explorers for centuries with the promise of a quick, if hazardous, Arctic sea route across the New World to the wealth of Asia.1989 May, Jeff MacInnis, “Braving the Northwest Passage”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 586
3. Any of various hand tools, with sharp points, used in dentistry.
4. A visual representation of a file system etc. through which the user can navigate.
   • For example, Vista includes a document explorer that shows just the documents in a location without considering all of the other files that might appear there.2007, Mark Minasi, John Paul Mueller, Mastering Windows Vista Business: Ultimate, Business, and Enterprise

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