discovery.
Something discovered.
Meaning & usage
Something discovered.
This latest discovery should eventually lead to much better treatments for disease.
The discovering of new things.
The purpose of the voyage was discovery.
Automatic discovery of RSS feeds by a Web browser.
An act of uncovering or revealing something; a revelation.
A pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.
The prosecution moved to suppress certain items turned up during discovery.
Materials revealed to the opposing party during the pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.
The defense argued that the plaintiff's discovery was inadequate.
A discovered attack.
Where this word comes from
from discover + -ery, on the pattern of the pair recover, recovery. Displaced native Old English onfundennes.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.