browser
noun
brows·er
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Definition of browser
1
: one that browses
2
: a computer program used for accessing sites or information on a network (such as the World Wide Web)
Examples of browser in a Sentence
There were a few browsers in the bookstore.
Recent Examples on the Web
However, the non-Apple browser will need to work with MSE, H.264, and AAC file types in order to stream the event. — Don Reisinger, Fortune, "How to Watch and Stream Apple’s iPhone 11 Event Live Online," 10 Sep. 2019 When Chrome or Firefox detect that this surveillance has been enabled, the browser will block the connection and display a warning. — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, "Firefox and Chrome Fight Back Against Kazakhstan's Spying," 21 Aug. 2019 Earlier, when the web browser was the lone medium to access the internet, an ISP could easily identify and block the uniform resource locator (URL) of that page and the content would be unreachable. — Niharika Sharma, Quartz India, "It took a ban and a government notice for ByteDance to wake up in India," 21 July 2019 In the process, the browser shares information about its whereabouts. — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, "What the Superhuman Controversy Reveals About the Shifting Ethics of Software," 17 July 2019 The Firefox and Brave browsers are more focused on privacy than Chrome. — New York Times, "A Feisty Google Adversary Tests How Much People Care About Privacy," 15 July 2019 The case dealt with the company's moves to kneecap the Netscape web browser by bundling its own product, Internet Explorer, into Windows, the dominant PC operating system. — Dina Bass, latimes.com, "Microsoft’s past antitrust missteps offer lessons for today’s tech giants," 20 June 2019 One Concern’s product, by contrast, depicted block-by-block damage in a web browser and promised to refine predictions with artificial intelligence as on-the-ground reports were fed back into it. — New York Times, "This High-Tech Solution to Disaster Response May Be Too Good to Be True," 9 Aug. 2019 Websites on the Dark Web are not accessible via traditional web browsers and cannot be searched, or indexed, by Google and other search engines. — Graham Kates, CBS News, "8chan struggles to stay online after links to mass shootings," 6 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'browser.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for browser
browser
noun
English Language Learners Definition of browser
: a person who looks at the things being sold in a store to see if there is something worth buying : a person who browses
: a computer program that is used to find and look at information on the Internet
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browser
noun
brows·er
| \ ˈbrau̇-zər
\
\
Kids Definition of browser
1
: a person or animal that browses
2
: a computer program providing access to sites on the World Wide Web
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