Lexic.us

Definition of Exploratory

1. Adjective. Serving in or intended for exploration or discovery. "Exploratory talks between diplomats"

Definition of Exploratory

1. a. Serving or intended to explore; searching; examining; explorative.

Definition of Exploratory

1. Adjective. Serving to explore or investigate. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Exploratory

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Exploratory

1. Relating to, or with a view to, exploration. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Exploratory

Literary usage of Exploratory

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"Part III exploratory Puncture and Examination of the Fluids Obtained In this ... A. The Technic of exploratory Puncture 1. exploratory Puncture of the ..."

2. Defense Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis: Meeting the Challenge by National Research Council (U.S.) (2006)
"For discussion of the related method of exploratory modeling in the ... exploratory analysis is very different from traditional sensitivity analysis. ..."

3. Analysis of Censored Data: Proceedings of the Workshop on Analysis of by Hira L. Koul, J. V. Deshpande, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1995)
"In this paper we review some of the available exploratory methods for survival data and indicate some directions for future research. ..."

4. Transactions of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists by American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (1903)
"The problems of exploratory laparatomy are numerous and perplexing. ... The term exploratory laparatomy expresses doubt in the mind of the surgeon; ..."

5. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1890)
"exploratory puncture of tubes negative. Puncture into retro-uterine space on ... The exploratory puncture, however, revealed the presence of ascitic fluid ..."

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