An instrument or device used to get information about an environment The use of a probe in a wastewater treatment laboratory generally has electrodes arranged in a given manner within the probe to allow attachment to a meter or other reading device to obtain desired information
Any effort, such as a request, transaction, or program, which is used to gather information about a computer or the network state For example, sending an empty message to see whether a destination actually exists Ping is a common utility for sending such a probe Some probes are inserted near key junctures in a network for monitoring or collecting data about network activity
an investigation conducted using a probe instrument an exploratory action or expedition a flexible slender surgical instrument used to explore wounds or body cavities an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities; "there was a congressional probe into the scandal"
A device used to send back information Campbell Scientific uses the words probe, sensor, and transducer interchangeably
If you probe into something, you ask questions or try to discover facts about it. The more they probed into his background, the more inflamed their suspicions would become For three years, I have probed for understanding The Office of Fair Trading has been probing banking practices The form asks probing questions. Probe is also a noun. a federal grand-jury probe into corruption within the FDA. + probing probings prob·ing If he remains here, he'll be away from the press and their probings
A sequence of DNA or RNA, labeled or marked with a radioactive isotope, used to detect the presence of complementary nucleotide sequences See Nucleotide
A space probe is a spacecraft which travels into space with no people in it, usually in order to study the planets and send information about them back to earth
a specific sequence of single-stranded DNA, typically labeled with a radioactive atom, which is designed to bind to, and thereby single out, a particular segment of DNA
Any effort to gather information about a machine or its users for the apparent purpose of gaining unauthorized access to the system at a later date
If you probe a place, you search it in order to find someone or something that you are looking for. A flashlight beam probed the underbrush only yards away from their hiding place I probed around for some time in the bushes
Tranmission used by ADC's in CSMA mode Sent by the transmitter to capture the channel, channel is considered captured when the receiving ADC sends a probe ACK
Singlestranded DNA or RNA molecules of specific base sequence, labeled either radioactively or immunologically, that are used to detect the complementary base sequence by hybridization