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exploration
US/ˌɛkspləˈɹeɪʃən/
noun
What it means
- countableuncountableThe 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 28, M. D. Greville, “A Diamond Jubilee of Railway Memories”, in Railway Magazine, page 459 - countableuncountableThe process of penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of (especially geographical) discovery.
The exploration of unknown areas was often the precursor to colonization.
- countableuncountableThe (pre-)mining process of finding and determining commercially viable ore deposits (after prospecting), also called mineral exploration.
In a sentence
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 28, M. D. Greville, “A Diamond Jubilee of Railway Memories”, in Railway Magazine, page 459
Where it comes from
- Latinexploratio
- Middle Frenchexploration
- Englishexploration
From Middle French exploration, from Latin exploratio. Morphologically explore + -ation.
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