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Search engine

Singular
search engine

Plural
search engines

search engine (plural search engines)

(computing) an application that searches for, and retrieves, data based on some criteria, especially one that searches the Internet for documents containing specified words

[edit] Translations

application that searches for, and retrieves, data based on some criteria

Arabic: محرك البحث ar(ar) (muHárrik al-baHth) m.
Chinese:

Mandarin: 搜索引擎 cmn(cmn) (sōusuǒ yǐnqíng), 搜索機 cmn(cmn), 搜索机 cmn(cmn) (sōusuǒjī), 搜尋引擎 cmn(cmn), 搜寻引擎 cmn(cmn) (sōuxún yǐnqíng)
Czech: vyhledávač cs(cs) m.
Dutch: zoekmotor nl(nl) m.
Esperanto: serĉilo
Finnish: hakukone fi(fi)
French: moteur de recherche fr(fr) m.
German: Suchmaschine de(de) f.
Italian: motore di ricerca it(it) m.

Japanese: サーチエンジン ja(ja) (sāchi-enjin), 検索エンジン ja(ja) (kensaku-enjin)
Macedonian: пребарувач mk(mk) (prebáruvač) m.
Norwegian Bokmål: søkemotor m.
Norwegian Nynorsk: søkemotor nn(nn) m.
Portuguese: máquina de busca f., motor de busca m.
Russian: поисковая система ru(ru) (poiskóvaja sistéma) f., поисковик ru(ru) (poiskovík) m., поисковая машина ru(ru) (poiskóvaja mašína) f.
Scottish Gaelic: lorgair gd(gd) m.
Slovene: iskalnik m.
Spanish: buscador es(es) m.
Swedish: sökmotor sv(sv) c.
Turkish: arama motoru tr(tr)

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