browser

An application program used to explore Internet resources. A browser lets you wander from Web site to Web site without concern for the technical details of the links between them or the specific methods used to access them and presents the information--text, graphics, sound, or video--as a document on the screen.

1. A small application used to scan a database or a list of files.
2. In Windows NT networking, a mechanism used as a name service.

See also Web browser; World Wide Web.