exploration

US/ˌɛkspləˈɹeɪʃən/

nounB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #6,153 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: explorations

Exploration is the searching out of unknown places or ideas. Polar exploration, oil exploration, an exploration of the theme.

In the oil industry it is a specific and enormously expensive stage, since exploration is looking and production is what pays. In writing and therapy it means going into a subject without knowing where it leads.

Definitions of exploration

1nounexplorationThe searching out of unknown places or ideas.B2
“Space exploration has taught us a great deal about our own planet.”

exploration is a searching.

Where it comes from

Latin exploratio comes from explorare, to search out.

Latin
exploratio
Middle French
exploration
English, today
exploration

From Middle French exploration, from Latin exploratio. Morphologically explore + ation.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

exploration in the wild

The early era of space exploration was driven by a "Space Race" in which the Soviet Union and the United States vied to demonstrate their technological superiority.
Space exploration
The 2000s brought advancements in the national space-exploration programs of China, the European Union, Japan, and India.
Space exploration
Early writings about exploration date back to the 4th millennium B.C. in ancient Egypt.
Geographical exploration
One of the earliest and most impactful thinkers of exploration was Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD.
Geographical exploration
The Vision for Space Exploration (VSE) was a plan for space exploration announced on January 14, 2004 by President George W.
Vision for Space Exploration

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