- a slender, blunt surgical instrument for exploring a wound or
the like - the act of probing - a searching examination;
specif., - ☆ an investigation, as by a legislative committee,
into corruption, etc. - an exploratory advance or patrol - ☆ an
instrumented spacecraft for exploring the upper atmosphere,
space, or a celestial body in order to get information about the
environment, physical properties, etc. - any of various devices,
as a Pitot tube or electrode, inserted into an environment for
measuring, testing, etc. LL proba, proof (in ML, examination) <
L probare, to test, prove < probus, good, proper < IE *probhwos
(> Sans prabhúḥ, outstanding) < base *pro, forward + *bhū, to
grow > be transitive verb probed, probing - to explore (a wound,
etc.) with a probe - to investigate or examine with great
thoroughness