prospection

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English

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Noun

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prospection (countable and uncountable, plural prospections)

  1. (uncommon) The action of looking forward into the future. Formed by analogy with retrospection.
  2. (uncommon) The act of prospecting for minerals.
  3. A search for archaeological remains, usually using modern technology, for example ground penetrating radar.

References

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  • "Prospection as a feature of Structure" Mona Baker, Gill Francis, Elena Tognini-Bonelli "Text and technology: in honour of John Sinclair" http://books.google.com/books?id=7-Bzc_XjBikC&p71, 1993 John Benjamins Publishing Company →ISBN
  • "First part of the prospection fulfilled, prospection still active" Susan Hunston, Gill Francis, "Pattern grammar: a corpus-driven approach to the lexical grammar of English" http://books.google.co/books?id=UUmtzBRd4VcC&, p242, 2000 John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN
  • "The problem with this error of retrospection is that it can keep us from discovering our errors of prospection" Daniel Gilbert "Stumbling on Happiness" Knopf New York 2006 →ISBN

French

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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prospection f (plural prospections)

  1. prospecting

Further reading

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