🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

补充查询

Pronunciation / Transliteration: bǔchōng cháxún

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Supplementary query/ˌsʌp.ləˈmen.tər.i ˈkwɪər.i/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"系统自动生成了相关联的补充查询。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An additional question or search term submitted to an information retrieval system or database to supplement an initial search and gather more comprehensive results.

    "The search engine generated several supplementary queries to help the user narrow down their research topic."
  2. 2

    A secondary follow-up inquiry asked during an investigation, interview, or formal proceeding to clarify previous statements.

    "The committee submitted a supplementary query regarding the budget discrepancies found in the primary report."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'supplementary', derived from the Late Latin 'supplementarius' (meaning 'providing an addition or supplement'), with 'query', stemming from the Latin 'quaerere' (meaning 'to seek or ask'). It evolved in modern information science and search engine optimization contexts to describe secondary prompts used to refine or expand initial information retrieval.

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