PROBING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does probing mean? 

• PROBING (adjective)
  The adjective PROBING has 1 sense:

1. diligent and thorough in inquiry or investigation

  Familiarity information: PROBING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROBING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Diligent and thorough in inquiry or investigation

Synonyms:

inquisitory; probing; searching

Context example:

a searching investigation of their past dealings

Similar:

inquiring (given to inquiry)

 Context examples 

Probing the weather layer down to 30 to 45 miles (50 to 70 kilometers) below Jupiter's cloud tops, JIRAM captures infrared light emerging from deep inside Jupiter.

(NASA's Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery, NASA)

During these flybys, Juno is probing beneath the obscuring cloud cover of Jupiter and studying its auroras to learn more about the planet's origins, structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere.

(NASA Juno data indicate another possible volcano on Jupiter moon Io, NASA)

You can imagine that I could hardly come away from the Amazon without probing deeper into the matter.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you find an apartment or house that you like, be sure to ask probing questions before you commit.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture in the hope of finding them.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The anterior extreme of the tongue which can be made pointed for sensing or probing and which rests against the lingual aspect of the incisor teeth.

(Apex of the Tongue, NCI Thesaurus)

By probing what’s floating around in the foreground cluster, scientists were able to test one theory that dark matter might be made up mostly of a huge number of primordial black holes formed in the birth of the universe with masses tens of times larger than the Sun.

(Hubble Uncovers the Farthest Star Ever Seen, NASA)

He did not know that he was himself possessed of unusual brain vigor; nor did he know that the persons who were given to probing the depths and to thinking ultimate thoughts were not to be found in the drawing rooms of the world's Morses; nor did he dream that such persons were as lonely eagles sailing solitary in the azure sky far above the earth and its swarming freight of gregarious life.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

By probing the effect that vitamin D-3 has on the cells that make up the lining of blood vessels, scientists at Ohio State University in Columbus have identified for the first time the role that the sunshine vitamin plays in preserving cardiovascular health.

(Vitamin D-3 Could 'Reverse' Damage to Heart, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

If you do try to join a private club with Saturn and Pluto active, be prepared for the club to ask probing questions on the application.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)