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# exploration

«exploration» in Mova's school dictionary: **travelling to and looking around a place to find out what…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) Exploration is travelling to and looking around a place to find out what is there, especially a place nobody knows well. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exploration/#m3)

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «exploration» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exploration/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.