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# exploration

noun (exploration, explorations); verb explore; noun explorer

«exploration» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Exploration is travelling to and looking around a place to find out what is there, especially a place nobody knows well. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exploration/#m1)
2. Exploration is also looking closely at an idea or question to learn more. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exploration/#m2)
3. (medicine) An exploration can be a doctor examining part of the body. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exploration/#m3)

### In the lessons

History lessons (Age of Exploration, polar exploration, space exploration), science investigations, and stories of adventure. Phrases: space exploration, voyage of exploration, ocean exploration.

### Examples

- Space exploration has taken people to the Moon. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exploration/#x1)
- The children went on an exploration of the woods. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exploration/#x2)
- The class did an exploration of how magnets work. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exploration/#x3)
- Ocean exploration finds new creatures every year. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exploration/#x4)
- The Age of Exploration changed maps of the world. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exploration/#x5)
- Polar exploration was cold and dangerous. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exploration/#x6)

### Note

Countable and uncountable. Explorers of the past often met people who already lived in the places «discovered», so «discovered» can be one-sided. Spelling: explore drops the e: exploration.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «exploration» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exploration/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«exploration» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/exploration.html) on Mova free.