Explore

a. [Lat. exploro-ex, and ploro, to cry out, to wail.] To seek to obtain by weeping; to search out; to seek to discover; to view with care; to examine closely by the eye; to search by any means; to try, as the sea with a plummet; to scrutinize; to search or pry into; to inquire into with care; to examine closely with a view to discover truth. Explored', p . a . Searched; viewed; examined closely. Explorer, n. One who explores. Explor'ing, p . a . Searching; viewing; examining. Exploʻsion, n . [Fr.; Lat. explosio .] (Phys.) The sudden and violent expansion of the sides of any object, accompanied by a loud report. E. is always sudden and of momentary duration, while expansion is the effect of some gradual, continued power acting uniformly for some considerable time. E. of some solids, as gunpowder, ., results from their elements suddenly entering into new combinations and a uming the gaseous state. Explo's ive, a. That explodes; driving or bursting out with violence and noise; causing explosion. Explosively, adv . In an explosive manner. Exponent, n. [Lat. exponens , from expo no -ez, and pono, to set, to place. See POSITION.] That which sets forth; that which points out or indicates; an index; one who stands as an index or representative. ( Algeb .) The index of a power; a number, or a symbol representing a number, which, when written above and to the right of any symbol of quantity, indicates that a corresponding power of that quantity is to be taken. Exponential, a . [Fr. exponentiel.] Pertaining to an exponent or exponents. E. equation . ( Math .) An equation which involves terms wherein the unknown quantity appears as an exponent or as a constituent of an exponent. The simplest form of exponential equation is a = b ; one of its solutions is the logarithm of b to the base of a, or, what is the same thing, the ratio of the logarithm of 6 to that of a, the bases being the same, but arbitrary. This is only one solution; the equation has innumerable other imaginary roots, and is consequently transcendental . A curve in whose equation the coördinates appear as exponents is, in like manner, called an exponential curve. Export', v . a. [Fr. exporter; Lat. export are , to carry out.] To bear or carry out; to convey or transport produce or goods from one country to another. -n. A commodity actually conveyed in traffic from one country to another;-used chiefly in the plural-exports. -The act of exporting; exportation. Exportable, a . That may be exported. Export a'tion, n. [Fr., from Lat. exportatio .] Act of conveying in traffic goods or productions from one country to another.