English
Etymology
From Middle French exploration, from Latin exploratio
Morphologically explore + -ation
Pronunciation
- (US) enPR: ĕks’plərā′shən, IPA(key): /ˌɛkspləˈɹeɪʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
exploration (countable and uncountable, plural explorations)
- The process of exploring.
- 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.
- (medicine) A physical examination of a patient.
Derived terms
Translations
act of exploring
- Albanian: eksplorim (sq) m
- Arabic: اِسْتِكْشَاف m (istikšāf)
- Armenian: հետազոտություն (hy) (hetazotutʻyun), ուսումնասիրություն (hy) (usumnasirutʻyun)
- Azerbaijani: tədqiqat (az), kəşfiyyat
- Belarusian: дасле́даванне n (dasljédavannje), дасле́дванне n (dasljédvannje)
- Bulgarian: изсле́дване (bg) n (izslédvane)
- Catalan: exploració f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 勘探 (zh) (kāntàn), 勘察 (zh) (kānchá)
- Czech: průzkum (cs) m
- Danish: udforskning c, undersøgelse c
- Dutch: verkenning (nl) f, exploratie (nl)
- Esperanto: esplorado
- Estonian: uurimine
- Finnish: tutkiminen (fi), tutkimus (fi), tutkimusmatka (fi)
- French: exploration (fr) f
- Georgian: გამოკვლევა (gamoḳvleva)
- German: Erkundung (de) f, Erforschung (de) f, Untersuchung (de) f
- Greek: εξερεύνηση (el) f (exerévnisi)
- Hungarian: felfedezés (hu)
- Indonesian: eksplorasi (id)
- Italian: esplorazione (it) f
- Japanese: 探検 (ja) (たんけん, tanken), 探査 (ja) (たんさ, tansa), 精査 (ja) (せいさ, seisa), 探究 (ja) (たんきゅう, tankyū)
- Korean: 탐험(探險) (tamheom), 탐사(探査) (tamsa), 답사(踏査) (ko) (dapsa), 탐구(探究) (tamgu)
- Latvian: pētījums m
- Lithuanian: tyrinėjimas m
- Macedonian: истражување n (istražuvanje)
- Malay: penjelajahan, penerokaan
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: судалгаа (mn) (sudalgaa)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: utforskning m or f, utforsking m or f
- Nynorsk: utforsking f
- Persian: کاوش (fa) (kâvoš), اکتشاف (fa) (ektešâf)
- Polish: eksploracja (pl) f, badanie (pl) n
- Portuguese: exploração (pt) f
- Romanian: explorare (ro) f
- Russian: иссле́дование (ru) n (isslédovanije), изуче́ние (ru) n (izučénije)
- Scottish Gaelic: rannsachadh m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: истражи́ва̄ње n
- Roman: istražívānje (sh) n
- Slovak: prieskum m
- Slovene: raziskovanje n
- Spanish: exploración (es) f
- Swedish: utforskning c
- Tajik: иктишоф (iktišof), тадкиқ (tadkiq), таҳқиқ (tahqiq), тафтиш (taftiš)
- Turkish: keşif (tr)
- Ukrainian: дослі́дження (uk) n (doslídžennja), дослі́джування n (doslídžuvannja)
- Uzbek: tekshirish (uz)
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penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of (especially geographical) discovery
geological (mineral) exploration
- German: Exploration (de) f
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin explōrātiō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛk.splɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/
Noun
exploration f (plural explorations)
- exploration
Derived terms
Descendants
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