Exploratory

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Exploratory \Ex*plor"a*to*ry\, a. [L. exploratorius.]
     Serving or intended to explore; searching; examining;
     explorative. --Sir H. Wotton.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  exploratory
       adj : serving in or intended for exploration or discovery; "an
             exploratory operation"; "exploratory reconnaisance";
             "digging an exploratory well in the Gulf of Mexico";
             "exploratory talks between diplomats" [syn: {explorative}]
             [ant: {nonexploratory}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  26 Moby Thesaurus words for "exploratory":
     advanced, analytic, avant-garde, examinational, examinatorial,
     examining, explorational, explorative, fact-finding, feeling,
     groping, heuristic, inaugural, indagative, inspectional,
     inspectorial, investigational, investigative, investigatory,
     original, preceding, preliminary, tentative, testing, trying,
     zetetic