A long screwdriver-like device made of brass used to penetrate the ground and physically locate a detected target before digging it up

A sequence of DNA or RNA, labeled or marked with a radioactive isotope, used to detect the presence of complementary nucleotide sequences.

A small piece of DNA that is used to isolate or detect complementary target in the reaction mixture.

in molecular genetics, a labelled fragment of cloned DNA or RNA which is used to detect other DNA or RNA sequences.

Fig.: to search to the bottom; to scrutinize or examine thoroughly.

an investigation by an appointed committee into alleged corruption or illegal activities.

to explore or investigate inside something with an instrument; to try to find out about something (sometimes hidden information or meaning) through asking questions and conducting research My tooth hurts and I don't want the dentist to probe it. The government statement said that it intended to probe further into the piling scandal. probe (n)

an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities; "there was a congressional probe into the scandal"

To examine, as a wound, an ulcer, or some cavity of the body, with a probe.

An instrument for examining the depth or other circumstances of a wound, ulcer, or cavity, or the direction of a sinus, of for exploring for bullets, for stones in the bladder, etc.

Pertaining to a pointed instrument used to explore and examine the teeth and restorations.

in ultrasonics, term commonly used to describe the convertor-horn-tip system which accepts power from a generator and does work. Not to be confused with sensing elements used in non-destructive testing and measuring.

Acronym for Pilot Radiation Observation Experiment, a part of the ARM program designed to provide a tropical cloud and radiation data base for ARM, a testbed for ARM instrumentation in the tropics, and experience for a long-term ARM observational facility to be established in the tropical western Pacific. See the PROBE Web site.

1. An instrumented vehicle that is located in the upper atmosphere, space or upon another celestial body and used to obtain information about the specific enviroment. 2. The vacuum tube which houses the science instrument assembly, the electrical cables and connectors which connect the gyro susupension, SQUIDs, telescope detectors, and SIA instrumentation to their electronics boxes. The probe is installed in the Dewar well.

a location or activity to which DTrace can bind a request to perform a set of actions , like recording a stack trace, a timestamp, or the argument to a function

an a piece of instrumentation that can be added to any instruction in the program

An unmanned vehicle travelling into space to celestial bodies in order to collect information about them.

A vessel designed to pass and observe an astronomical object. Usually unmanned.

an unmanned spacecraft that is sent to collect data from space

A spacecraft, with no humans aboard, designed to study conditions on or near a planet.

Eddy current transducer.

A device used to send back information. Campbell Scientific uses the words probe, sensor, and transducer interchangeably.

a device that contains a number of general purpose or mission specific sensors and can be launched from a starship for closer examination of objects in space

A generic term that is used to describe many types of temperature sensors.

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.

a device used to gather information from remote, hazardous or otherwise difficult to reach locations

an effort to gather information about a computer or its users for the purpose of gaining unauthorized access later

An attempt to gather information about an information system for the apparent purpose of circumventing its security controls.

an oscilloscope input device, usually having a pointed metal tip for making electrical contact with a circuit element and a flexible cable for transmitting the signal to the oscilloscope.

a circuit node/test point to be forced to logic/voltage levels and/or monitored during simulation

A branch introduced into a circuit (or system) that does not alter the circuit's behavior, but lets the simulator read the potential or flow at that point.

An input device for making electrical contact with a circuit, a lead to connect to the circuit's ground reference, and a cable for transmitting the signal and ground to the test equipment.

A valid, reliable, and standardized assessment used to monitor student progress. Probes used for progress monitoring should be time efficient, curriculum-independent, and sensitive to small increments of growth.

a program or other device inserted at a key juncture in a network for the purpose of monitoring or collecting data about network activity

a task-oriented program designed specifically towards a certain task, such as monitoring an application, a filesystem, a database etc

Proxy Based Estimating, is the estimation method introduced by Watts Humphrey (of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University) as part of the Personal Software Process (a discipline that helps individual software engineers monitor, test, and improve their own work). PROBE is based on the idea that if an engineer is building a component similar to one he built previously, then it will take about the same effort as it did in the past.

A phase of active matching in which a candidate driver communicates with a device and verifies whether it can drive it. The driverâ€(tm)s probe member function is invoked to kick off this phase. The driver returns a probe score that reflects its ability to drive the device. See also "driver matching".

a physical device which observes and reports back to its senders

Small device for measuring and testing.

In geophysics, the device used to make a sounding.

a small but high-tech extension for ProfiTrace that makes it possible to do measurements directly on the PA bus

Probe was a 1988 American television pilot and subsequent TV series created by William Link and Isaac Asimov which aired on ABC. The pilot and series starred Parker Stevenson as a misanthropic genius who solved high tech crimes.

The parlor game Probe was introduced in the early 1970s (at least as long ago as 1971) by Parker Brothers.

Probe was a 2 hour TV pilot movie created by Leslie Stevens that first aired on February 21, 1972 on NBC.

Probe is a website-usage analysis tool. It 'probes' certain pages being viewed by a visitor, without needing access to log files from the webserver, and produces a web-page with statistics using bargraphs.

In well logging, a probe is a downhole logging instrument. A sonde tool.

Also called sonde or tool; downhole well-logging instrument package.

A probe is a specific type of Presence packet that seeks to discover another entity's availability.

A probe is a specific type of Info/Query request that searches for presence information.

more info A metal rod used to probe through avalanche debris for buried victims.

Soil probes are used to find the depths of soil layers of feature stains.

a novel field tool, which allows the assessment of soil environments at pipe depth without excavation

An instrument like a ruler that the dental professional uses to measure pocket depth. A probe measures in millimeters.

A software application on a network that receives the RMON analysis and capture data from the network agents.

a device that contains remote network monitoring (RMON) software to record information about the network traffic it observes

an example of an RMON device

a check of a table entry

a discrete check, or set of checks, configured to run against one or more servers, databases, and services

A message passing concept in which a check is made to see if a message is available, though the message is not actually received at that time.

a check of the maintenance of a target behavior that has already been established

a specific action taken by the auditor to establish whether the evidence for a target (in the first sense) is accurate

A part of an emulator that can be inserted in place of the target chip in the actual embedded systems hardware.

a connection made to a computer in order to determine if it has a security vulnerability (for example, testing a mail relay to see if it allows third party relay)

an IP packet traveling to an IP destination, all measurement-based CAC techniques apply to VoIP only (including VoIP over Frame Relay and VoIP over ATM networks)

an object that can gather information from one object and relay it to other objects, including displays on the screen

a feasible choice to identify Shigella among crowded background flora

a move which asks the opponent to make a choice, allowing you to decide your own strategy on the basis of this choice

In studies of memory, an item from a list to be remembered that is presented as a cue to the subject; for example, the subject could be asked to give the next item in the list.