Explorer

One who explores something

• Sachs tries to remember how it felt not to walk around with this knot in his gut. He longs for his old lab in Connecticut, where the world was made of mathematics, energy, and atomic cascades, and he was its explorer. He has no business in

A person who by means of travel (notably an expedition) searches out new information.

• The dream of a Northwest Passage lured European explorers for centuries with the promise of a quick, if hazardous, Arctic sea route across the New World to the wealth of Asia.

Any of various hand tools, with sharp points, used in dentistry.

A visual representation of a file system etc. through which the user can navigate.

• For example, Vista includes a document explorer that shows just the documents in a location without considering all of the other files that might appear there.