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Discovery
Definitions
- 1 Something discovered. countable, uncountable
"This latest discovery should eventually lead to much better treatments for disease."
- 2 the act of discovering something wordnet
- 3 The discovering of new things. uncountable
"The purpose of the voyage was discovery."
- 4 a productive insight wordnet
- 5 An act of uncovering or revealing something; a revelation. archaic, countable
"Don Huberto actually fell in love with his kinswoman, and had presumption enough to declare his passion […] The lady being a woman of discretion, instead of making a discovery, which might have been attended with melancholy consequences, reprimanded her relation with gentleness […]"
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- 6 something that is discovered wordnet
- 7 A pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered. uncountable
"The prosecution moved to suppress certain items turned up during discovery."
- 8 (law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case wordnet
- 9 Materials revealed to the opposing party during the pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered. uncountable
"The defense argued that the plaintiff's discovery was inadequate."
- 10 A discovered attack. countable, uncountable
"1700: "If I play f4, he can check me with ...Qd4, but then he has to move his Queen because he can easily lose it to a Bishop discovery on b5. He could also check me on c5 when his Queen might be safer. I could just move out of the way, though, and continue my attack.""
Etymology
from discover + -ery, on the pattern of the pair recover, recovery. Displaced native Old English onfundennes.
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