Usually means: Instruments for scientific investigation and measurement.
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  1. probes: Merriam-Webster
  2. probes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. probes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Probe's, Probes, probe's, probes: Wordnik
  5. probes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. probes: Wiktionary
  7. probes: Dictionary.com
  8. probes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. probes: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. probes: Legal dictionary

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  1. probes: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. probes: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. probes: Medical dictionary

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  1. PROBES: Acronym Finder
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  3. probes: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Probe)

noun:  (surgery) Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc.
noun:  (comedy, fiction) An anal probe, a fictional instrument commonly used by aliens on abducted humans.
noun:  (figuratively) Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information.
noun:  An act of probing; a prod, a poke.
noun:  (figuratively) An investigation or inquiry.
noun:  (aeronautics) A tube attached to an aircraft which can be fitted into the drogue from a tanker aircraft to allow for aerial refuelling.
noun:  (sciences) A small device, especially an electrode, used to explore, investigate or measure something by penetrating or being placed in it.
noun:  (astronautics) A small, usually uncrewed, spacecraft used to acquire information or measurements about its surroundings.
noun:  (go) A move with multiple possible answers, seeking to make the opponent choose and commit to a strategy.
noun:  (biochemistry) Any group of atoms or molecules radioactively labeled in order to study a given molecule or other structure
verb:  (ambitransitive) To explore, investigate, question, test, or prove.
verb:  (transitive) To insert a probe into.
noun:  A model of Ford automobile.
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