browser

[brou-zer] /ˈbraʊ zər/
noun
1.
a person or thing that browses.
2.
Also called Web browser. Digital Technology. a software program that allows the user to find and read encoded documents in a form suitable for display, especially such a program for use on the World Wide Web.
Related forms
nonbrowser, noun
British Dictionary definitions for web-browser

browser

/ˈbraʊzə/
noun
1.
a person or animal that browses
2.
(computing) a software package that enables a user to find and read hypertext files, esp on the Internet
Word Origin and History for web-browser

browser

n.

1845, "animal which browses," agent noun from browse (v.). In the computer sense by 1982.

The first browser was invented at PARC by Larry Tesler, now a designer at Apple Computer. Tesler's first Smalltalk browser was a tree-structured device. It enabled programmers to hunt quickly for items in a Smalltalk dictionary. ["InfoWorld" magazine, vol. v., no. 4, Jan. 24, 1983]

web-browser in Science
browser
  (brou'zər)   
A program that accesses and displays files and other data available on the Internet and other networks. Entering a website's URL in the address window of a browser will bring up that website in the browser's main window.
web-browser in Culture

browser definition


See Web browser.