Explorer
nounEtymology From explorer.
1
US A participant in the Exploring program, which focuses on career exploration.
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US A participant in the Fire Service Exploring program.
explorer
nounalso spelled Explorer/ɛkˈsplɔːɹə(ɹ)/
Etymology From explore + -er.
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 loyalties can get your brain spattered over hotel bedrooms.2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 128:
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A person who by means of travel (notably an expedition) searches out new information.
- Though now extinct, the rachni once threatened every species in Citadel space. Over 2000 years ago, explorers foolishly opened a mass relay to a previously-unknown system and encountered something never seen before or since: a species of spacefaring insects guided by a hive-mind intelligence.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Rachni Codex entry:
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Any of various hand tools, with sharp points, used in dentistry.
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Computing, Engineering, Graphical user interface, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences 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:
- Derived terms
- nonexplorer, sexplorer, urban explorer
- Related terms
- exploration, explorative, exploratory, ranger, scout