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What is the exterior derivative intuitively?

Hi, actually I have several related questions, not worth opening different threads:

  1. What is the of the exterior derivative intuitively? What is its geometric meaning? A possible answer I know is, that it is dual to the boundary operator of singular homology. However I would prefer a more direct interpretation.

  2. What is a conceptually nice definition of the exterior derivative?