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path⋅find⋅er

  [path-fahyn-der, pahth‑]
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–noun
1. a person who finds or makes a path, way, route, etc.,esp. through a previously unexplored or untraveled wilderness.
2. an airplane, or a person dropped from a plane, sent into a target area to illuminate the area for succeeding aircraft.
3. a radar beacon beamed into a target area to provide guidance for missiles seeking the target.
4. (initial capital letter) an unmanned spacecraft that landed on Mars on July 4, 1997, to obtain climatic and geologic data.
Origin:
1830–40, Americanism; path + finder

Related forms:
pathfinding, noun, adjective
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path·find·er   (pāth'fīn'dər, päth'-)   
n.  

  1. One that discovers a new course or way, especially through or into unexplored regions.

  2. One of a group of paratroopers who land ahead of a main force in order to mark the drop zone.

path'find'ing adj.
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pathfinder path·find·er (pāth'fīn'dər)
n.
A filiform bougie for introduction through a narrow stricture as a guide for the passage of a larger instrument.

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