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Exploratory vs Discovery - What's the difference?

exploratory | discovery |

As nouns the difference between exploratory and discovery

is that exploratory is an exploration or investigation while discovery is something discovered.

As an adjective exploratory

is serving to explore or investigate.

exploratory

English

Adjective

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  • Serving to explore or investigate

    • Noun

    (exploratories)
  • An exploration or investigation

    • discovery

    English

    Noun

  • Something discovered.
    • This latest discovery should eventually lead to much better treatments for disease.
  • (uncountable) The discovering of new things.
    • The purpose of the voyage was discovery .
    automatic discovery of RSS feeds by a Web browser
  • (legal, uncountable) A pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.
    • The prosecution moved to suppress certain items turned up during discovery .
  • (legal, uncountable) Materials revealed to the opposing party during the pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.
    • The defense argued that the plaintiff's discovery was inadequate.

    Related terms

    * discover verb * discoverer noun * e-discovery