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Dictionary: brow·ser   (brou'zər) pronunciation
 
n.
  1. One that browses.
  2. Computer Science. A program that accesses and displays files and other data available on the Internet and other networks.

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A program that lets you look through a collection of data. See Web browser, microbrowser, class browser and browse.

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Software program that can be utilized for viewing pages (web sites) on the World Wide Web of the Internet.

 
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A program specifically designed to help users view and navigate hypertext, on-line documentation, or a database. While this general sense has been present in jargon for a long time, the proliferation of browsers for the World Wide Web after 1992 has made it much more popular and provided a central or default techspeak meaning of the word previously lacking in hacker usage. Nowadays, if someone mentions using a ‘browser’ without qualification, one may assume it is a Web browser.


 

Software that allows a computer user to find and view information on the Internet. The first text-based browser for the World Wide Web became available in 1991; Web use expanded rapidly after the release in 1993 of a browser called Mosaic, which used "point-and-click" graphical manipulations. Such Web browsers interpret the HTML tags in downloaded documents and format the displayed data according to a set of standard style rules. Netscape Navigator became the dominant Web browser soon after its release in 1994; Microsoft's Internet Explorer was introduced a year later and has become widespread.

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Animal species which eat browse rather than grass and herbs.

 
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - oser, browser

Français (French)
n. - entrée libre

Deutsch (German)
n. - (Comp.) Browser

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - φυλλομετρητής, πρόγραμμα ανάγνωσης σελίδων του Διαδικτύου

Español (Spanish)
n. - (informática) navegador, (informática) visualizador, (informática) visor

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - sökverktyg för internetanvändare (data.)

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
吃嫩叶的动物, 浏览书本的人

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 吃嫩葉的動物, 瀏覽書本的人

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 어린 잎을 먹는 소, 책을 마음 내키는 데로 읽는 사람

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) برنامج لتصفح الأنترنت, قارىء غير جدي‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮תוכנת חיפוש באינטרנט‬


 
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