browser : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: browser	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for browser
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
browser n a viewer who looks around casually without seeking anything in particular a program used to view HTML documents Synonym(s): browser, web browser
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Browser \Brows"er\ (brouz"[etil]r), n. An animal that browses.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
browser n. A program specifically designed to help users view and navigate hypertext, on-line documentation, or a database. While this general sense has been present in jargon for a long time, the proliferation of browsers for the World Wide Web after 1992 has made it much more popular and provided a central or default meaning of the word previously lacking in hacker usage. Nowadays, if someone mentions using a `browser' without qualification, one may assume it is a Web browser.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
browser A program which allows a person to read {hypertext}. The browser gives some means of viewing the contents of {nodes} (or "pages") and of {navigating} from one node to another. {Netscape Navigator}, {NCSA} {Mosaic}, {Lynx}, and {W3} are examples for browsers for the {World-Wide Web}. They act as {clients} to remote {web servers}. (1996-05-31)