discovery

Meaning

1. Something discovered.
2. The discovering of new things.
3. An act of uncovering or revealing something; a revelation.
4. A pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.
5. Materials revealed to the opposing party during the pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.
6. A discovered attack.

Concepts

discovery

find

finding

detection

invention

exposure

breakthrough

disclosure

uncovering

exploration

revelation

development

innovation

fiction

inventiveness

origination

answer

solution

anniversary

breaktrough

milestone

manifestation

gold strike

strike

unravelling

unfolding

display

presentation

video picture

visualization

contrivance

devisal

fabrication

device

figment

lash-up

detecting

perception

espial

trove

eye-opener

party dress

phantasm

revelations

spectre

spook

wraith

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɪsˈkʌvəɹi/

Etymology

from discover + -ery, on the pattern of the pair recover, recovery. Displaced native Old English onfundennes.

Sentences

The species was originally considered already extinct at the time of its discovery .