evolution
IPA: ɛvʌɫˈuʃʌn
noun
- A change of position.
- (military) A manoeuvre of troops or ships.
- (chiefly dance, sports) A turning movement, especially of the body.
- (obsolete) A turned or twisted shape; an involution, a complex or intricate shape.
- An unfolding.
- (now rare) The act or process of unfolding or opening out; the progression of events in regular succession.
- (geometry) The opening out of a curve; now more generally, the gradual transformation of a curve by a change of the conditions generating it.
- (mathematics, now chiefly historical) The extraction of a root from a given power.
- (chemistry) The act or an instance of giving off gas; emission.
- Process of development.
- Development; the act or result of developing what was implicit in an idea, argument etc.
- A process of gradual change in a given system, subject, product etc., especially from simpler to more complex forms.
- (biology) The transformation of animals, plants and other living things into different forms (now understood as a change in genetic composition) by the accumulation of changes over successive generations.
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Examples of "evolution" in Sentences
- Involution is the opposite of Evolution.
- But is it illegal to question the soundness of evolution
- The evolution of life and the development of the human mind.
- In them he helped develop the concept of emergent evolution.
- This is the Timeline of the evolution of the science and technology.
- The development of the holiday followed the evolution of the militia.
- Linked regularities in the development and evolution of mammalian brains.
- The point of science is evolution in thinking, as opposed to dogmatic stasis.
- This led to the development of the tank, and the evolution of armoured warfare.
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