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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
exploration
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
space exploration
▪ They are developing robots that can be used for space exploration.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
further
▪ Careful and systematic dating of the fragments, however, may show the site to be important and worthy of further exploration.
▪ The origins and differences between the two groups are vastly distinct as further exploration of this subject will disclose.
▪ Initial results have led to further exploration of the subsequent careers of nurses.
▪ Fortunately, Bachmann deemed his side show worthy of further exploration.
▪ The Nicky Wragg incident raised a number of issues and questions for further exploration.
▪ No further exploration drilling is planned for this year.
▪ Nevertheless, this form of analysis may still merit further exploration.
▪ The Peace Corps provided an opportunity for an escape, a chance for further exploration, a moratorium before final commitment.
mineral
▪ Engineering geophysics also supports hydrogeological studies, landfill and pollution assessments, mineral exploration and local geological studies.
▪ Relevant sections cover development near highways, agricultural engineering operations, mineral exploration and industrial and warehouse extensions.
▪ Mineral and planning legislation which affects mineral exploration is considered in Section 7.
▪ The mapping and mineral exploration of the northern part of the island of Malaita was started during the year.
▪ Little mineral exploration has been carried out in the area which is poorly exposed except in coastal sections.
▪ The Engineering Geology and Geophysics Group's responsibilities for borehole geophysics extend to boreholes drilled for mineral exploration.
■ NOUN
activity
▪ As a result of reduced exploration activity, Moray Firth Service Company achieved a disappointing 173 rig days during the year.
▪ The visits are intended to facilitate cooperation between the two former Cold War rivals in future space exploration activities.
▪ Special-needs students also participate in the ninth-grade career-exploration activities.
company
▪ Micropalaeontological studies on recovered core samples have been used for stratigraphical studies on behalf of petroleum exploration companies.
▪ The rest will be open to exploration companies under tight restrictions.
▪ It was also the first direct aid ever paid to exploration companies in Ireland.
▪ The exploration company said artifacts recovered from the new expedition will be housed in a permanent museum and exhibited around the world.
▪ This is not surprising given the value of information in this area; exploration companies are extremely volatile on the stock market.
gas
▪ The legislative and regulatory framework applied to gas exploration is also included in the study.
▪ We are acknowledged leaders in many aspects of gas exploration, production and supply.
▪ The Group conducts substantially all of its oil and gas exploration and development activity through unincorporated joint ventures.
▪ It was also agreed to develop co-operation in oil and gas exploration, transport, tourism, forestry and agriculture.
oil
▪ Controls against tree felling, tourism, urban development and major road and oil exploration schemes are to be increased.
▪ The human failing is the thing to attack, not the oil exploration.
▪ A number of successful applications of expert systems in medicine, oil exploration and in computer engineering underline this trend.
▪ A team of seismic engineers was bought in with equipment normally used in oil exploration to identify unusual objects buried underground.
programme
▪ A large exploration programme both on and offshore is in progress, though the level of activity has varied considerably.
space
▪ The museum's collection is vast, for it covers everything from windmills to space exploration.
▪ Making that decision, alas, is an imperfect art, upon which the future of space exploration has long rested.
▪ The visits are intended to facilitate cooperation between the two former Cold War rivals in future space exploration activities.
▪ He became irregular in his sobriety and would launch into disconnected, hortatory speeches about such matters as space exploration.
▪ The air bag landing scheme, designed to save money, had never been used in space exploration.
■ VERB
begin
▪ This chapter begins a detailed exploration of the issue of stratification, in particular stratification according to class.
▪ In that spirit, this book begins its exploration of the political world at the most personal and individual level.
▪ He began an exploration of her body, a constant revelation of tormenting pleasure.
continue
▪ Her present show, at Janis until the nineteenth, continues her explorations.
▪ Not only does business continue to demand exploration in technological development, it completes the cycle by voraciously consuming its applications.
▪ In our lives today we have to continue that journey of exploration and answer the same questions as Paul did.
▪ And there is a door to the west, to allow them to continue their explorations. 54.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ In explorations of the Japan Sea, scientists examined the sea bottom.
▪ oil exploration
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But all their exploits and explorations suddenly came to an abrupt end.
▪ Further exploration and appraisal drilling will be necessary to confirm the commercial potential for this discovery.
▪ The exploration of literary texts is not an elitist activity, distinct from the study of other means of communication.
▪ The exploration will revolve around the systematic development in youngsters of the desired, and contrasting, characteristics the two valuations entail.
▪ The Alvin is the lunar module of deep-sea exploration.
▪ The twentieth century provides a vehicle for more meaningful exploration of the influence such cosmic events would have had upon the world.
▪ They are a time of exploration, assertion, and challenge, and often of confusion, contradictions, and trauma.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exploration

Exploration \Ex`plo*ra"tion\, n. [L. exploratio: cf. F. exploration.] The act of exploring, penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of discovery, especially of geographical discovery; examination; as, the exploration of unknown countries; (Med.) physical examination.

``An exploration of doctrine.''
--Bp. Hall.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
exploration

1540s, from Middle French exploration and directly from Latin explorationem (nominative exploratio) "an examination," noun of action from past participle stem of explorare "investigate, examine" (see explore). Alternative explorement is from 1640s.

Wiktionary
exploration

n. 1 The act of explore 2 Notably penetrate, or range over for purposes of (especially geographical) discovery 3 A physical examination.

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WordNet
exploration

  1. n. to travel for the purpose of discovery [syn: geographic expedition]

  2. a careful systematic search

  3. a systematic consideration; "he called for a careful exploration of the consequences"

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Wikipedia
Exploration

Exploration is the act of searching for the purpose of discovery of information or resources. Exploration occurs in all non-sessile animal species, including humans. In human history, its most dramatic rise was during the Age of Discovery when European explorers sailed and charted much of the rest of the world for a variety of reasons. Since then, major explorations after the Age of Discovery have occurred for reasons mostly aimed at information discovery.

In scientific research, exploration is one of three purposes of empirical research (the other two being description and explanation). The term is commonly used metaphorically. For example, an individual may speak of exploring the Internet, sexuality, etc.

Exploration (video game)

Exploration (also known as Voyages of Discovery and Christoph Kolumbus in Germany) is a simulation strategy game designed by Software 2000 in 1994.

Category:1994 video games Category:DOS games Category:Amiga games Category:Video games developed in Germany

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Practical Values of Space Exploration, by Committee on Science and Astronautics This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.

Title: The Practical Values of Space Exploration Report of the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.

The automated exploration vehicle has stumbled on a strike that looks like it may be one of the biggest finds in the history of lunar exploration.

That was one reason Barnet had decided to risk the voyage of exploration which had ended so disastrously.

It was as if human civilization was nothing but an exploration of ways of using up exergy faster.

Mysticism being, in essence, the practical, experiential exploration of Being, under the driving and guiding power of Love.

He became irregular in his sobriety and would launch into disconnected, hortatory speeches about such matters as space exploration.

Occasionally he sighted Mandy, off on her own exploration, looking happy and carefree.

Along with half a dozen more heresies it landed Marther in court, and started agitation for a ban on further exploration.

Kandel, E R From metapsychology to molecular biology: explorations into the nature of anxiety.

I remembered my father, a lined, silent man who had liked to fly often, taking photograph after photograph from his plane for the meticulous work of Mapping and Exploration.

Such exploration of the possibilities clearly shows that the Kunderian esthetic, far from being governed by the dual principle of language and the world, stems openly from their multiform and polysemic construction.

But the engineer desired to know how and where the overplus of the water from the lake escaped, and the exploration was prolonged under the trees for a mile and a half towards the north.

It will be difficult to leave this island: the palis, the sound of the waves on the reef, my gentle storytellers, who have received the wisdom of their elders, those same elders with whom I began my exploration of the ancient Hawaiians so many years ago.

In a case studied by Fevrier the exploration of a lateral pharyngeal fistula produced by the introduction of the sound violent reflex phenomena, such as pallor of the face and irregular, violent beating of the heart.