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discovery Definition

dis·cov·ery (di skuv′ər ē)

noun pl. -·er·ies

  1. the act of discovering
  2. anything discovered
  3. Archaic the act of revealing; disclosure
  4. Law any pretrial procedures, as the taking of depositions, for compelling the disclosure of pertinent factual information

discovery Synonyms

discovery

n.

  1. The act of finding the unknown

    invention, detection, uncovering, exploration, unearthing, identification, discernment, distinguishing, sensing, distinction, determination, calculation, experimentation, empiricism, feeling, hearing, sighting, spying, espial, descrial, spotting, strike, ascertainment, finding, hitting, learning, striking, disinterring, revelation, locating, serendipity; see also examination 1.

  2. Something discovered

    results, findings, find, invention, contrivance, breakthrough, innovation, development, strike, coup, treasure trove, formula, device, design, contraption, machine, process, data, principle, law; see also result.

discovery Law Definition

n

In litigation, the compulsory release by a party of documents and other evidence sought by the other party, under rules set by the court. Means of discovery include depositions, written interrogatories, requests for admissions, and requests to produce documents or to inspect property. See also disclosure. 
discovery Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • await: Some of that data may be lost forever, or they may be awaiting discovery by archeologists.
  • astound: From this, the vivisectors made the astounding discovery that the rabbits ' motion decreased the further the limb was stretched.
  • announce: Only when they announce discoveries contrary to their beliefs can they be believed!
  • facilitate: To facilitate the discovery of morphemes, the words in the Word Collection can also be filtered using regular expressions.

Adjective modifier

  • archeological: Enter your answer The Soft Touch Question 43: What two archeological discoveries were made in Brigg in 1884?
  • scientific: Grand pieces were written to celebrate scientific discoveries or tell stories from the ancient world.
  • structure-based: Structure-based drug discovery involves the determination of a disease causing protein's three-dimensional structure.
  • startling: Science Page 57 When sugar is not so sweet Anthony Campbell and Stephanie Matthews reveal the startling discoveries they have made about lactose intolerance.
  • shocking: Brad comes up with a novel promotional idea for the coffee shop, and Gaby makes a shocking discovery.
  • recent: Of course, stem cells are still a recent discovery.

Modifies a noun

  • metadata: One of UKOLN's main area of interest is in resource discovery metadata.

Noun used with modifier

  • drug: The first stage of the process is drug discovery.
  • resource: The use of standard classification schemes will improve resource discovery [ 40 ] .
  • unionthe: Air conditioner soviet unionthe discoveries it through a. Unions to the of mind may have required were refracted and.
  • self: His wisdom and herbal remedies, each with it's own magical power, aids Alice on her journey of self discovery.
  • gene: Gene discovery and expression studies are used to characterize both major and polygenic resistance pathways in barley to pathogens.

Preposition: in

  • physic: Please help to tell millions about these wonderful, discoveries in physics that belong to every man, woman and child on earth.

Preposition: of

  • penicillin: The discovery of penicillin in the 1920s revolutionized the treatment of infection, with a host of life-threatening diseases becoming simple to cure.
  • insulin: Are there any lessons to be learned from the discovery of insulin.
  • x-ray: Acclaim dodge spirit coils to convert to shorten the his discovery of x-rays.
discovery Quotes

She had reached an age where she thought she could not stand to knowany more†she pushed any discovery aside with embarassment.

—Munro, Alice ne¤  e Laidlaw

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

—Szent-Gyo«  rgyi, Albert von Nagyrapolt

Wit, you know, is the unexpected copulation of ideas, the discoveryof some occult relation between imagesin appearance remote from each other.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

   Science creates the future without knowing what the future will be. If scientists knew tomorrow's discovery they would make it.

—Zuckerman, Solly Zuckerman, Baron

Countless works in the social sciences reveal the inability of their authors to bear in mind the crucial difference between what may properly be called the logic of discovery and the logic of demonstration. The second isproperlysubjectto rules and prescriptions; the first isn't.

—Nisbet, Robert

Perdre Mais perdre vraiment Pour laisser place a'   la trouvaille Perdre La vie pour trouver laVictoire. To lose But really to lose And make room for discovery To lose Life so as to discover Victory.

—Kostrowitzki

Medicinal discovery, It moves in mighty leaps, It leapt straight past the common cold And gave it us for keeps.

—Ayres, Pam

Some kind of moral discovery should be the object of every tale.

—Connor, Sir William Neil pseudonym Cassandra

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. 797

—Smiles, Samuel

In order that a new theory should constitute a discovery or step forward it should conflict with its predecessor †it should contradict its predecessor; it should overthrow it. In this sense, progress in scienceöor at least striking progressöis always revolutionary.

—Popper, Sir Karl Raimund

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

—Joyce,James Augustine Aloysius

Scientific discoveryand scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of them without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.

—Planck, Max Karl Ernst