browser

[brou-zer]

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noun

a person or thing that browses.

Also called Web browser. Digital Technology. a software program that allows the user to find and read encoded documents in a form suitable for display, especially such a program for use on the World Wide Web.

Related formsnon·brows·er, noun

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Related Words for browser

portal, gateway

Examples from the Web for browser

Contemporary Examples of browser

Browser preference might come down to how many times you want to slip your headset on and off.
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Aurora Snow
October 18, 2014
“People read or write documents, read or write emails, and mostly read or write through the browser,” says Malka.
The ‘Slow Web’ Movement Will Save Our Brains
Joshua Rivera
June 16, 2014
But a browser plug-in that encrypts Facebook messages could change all that.
Crypto for the Masses: Here’s How You Can Resist the NSA
Quinn Norton
May 12, 2014
You open your browser, check your email, maybe read The Daily Beast, check Facebook, and sign off.
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Brian Ries
December 11, 2013
A Syrian activist, for example, can now experience the internet through the browser of a friend in the United States.
Google Sends a Lifeline to Internet Users in Iran and China
Josh Rogin
October 21, 2013

Historical Examples of browser

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Beowulf
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You may need to adjust your browser settings for them to display properly.
The Story of the Barbary Corsairs
Stanley Lane-Poole
Are they replaced by the computer, the Internet browser, and digital television?
The Civilization of Illiteracy
Mihai Nadin
If you are reading this text in a browser, you may like to adjust your window accordingly.
A Treatise on Wood Engraving
John Jackson
Text containing these three characters will not be text-searchable in a browser.
The English Village Community
Frederic Seebohm

British Dictionary definitions for browser

browser

noun

a person or animal that browses

computing a software package that enables a user to find and read hypertext files, esp on the Internet

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Word Origin and History for browser

1845, "animal which browses," agent noun from browse (v.). In the computer sense by 1982.

The first browser was invented at PARC by Larry Tesler, now a designer at Apple Computer. Tesler's first Smalltalk browser was a tree-structured device. It enabled programmers to hunt quickly for items in a Smalltalk dictionary. ["InfoWorld" magazine, vol. v., no. 4, Jan. 24, 1983]

browser in Science

browser

[brou′zər]

A program that accesses and displays files and other data available on the Internet and other networks. Entering a website's URL in the address window of a browser will bring up that website in the browser's main window.

browser in Culture

browser

See Web browser.