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Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 2152 Housing Units (2000): 731 Land area (2000): 0.952716 sq. miles (2.467522 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.952716 sq. miles (2.467522 sq. km) FIPS code: 23005 Located within: Maryland ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of discovering something [syn: find , uncovering ] something that is discovered a productive insight [syn: breakthrough , find ] (law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Discovery is the act of detecting something new, or something "old" that had been unknown. With reference to sciences and academic disciplines , discovery is the observation of new phenomena, new actions, or new events and providing new reasoning to explain ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE great ▪ All these colonies belonged to powers whose empire-building had begun in the age of the great discoveries . ▪ No great discoveries , but at least he knew the score. ▪ He did exactly that, little knowing ...

Usage examples of discovery.

What appears to have pleased Adams no less was the discovery during his parting call at Versailles that his French had so improved he could manage an extended conversation and speak as rapidly as he pleased.

Once, for no reason other than intellectual curiosity, Adams rode to Windsor to call on the famous English astronomer Sir William Herschel, whose crowning achievement had been the discovery of the planet Uranus.

Then came the discovery that adrenochrome, which is a product of the decomposition of adrenalin, can produce many of the symptoms observed in mescalin intoxication.

Best known to us of all the Indians are the Algonkins and Iroquois, who, at the time of the discovery, were the sole possessors of the region now embraced by Canada and the eastern United States north of the thirty-fifth parallel.

The group of women whom Amathera used to meet in secret were friends Andric despised, and the shocking discovery that she financed several smuggling craft led nowhere.

Sharpey, and others, have been in communication with Members of both Houses of Parliament to arrange terms of a Bill which would prevent any unnecessary cruelty or abuse in experiments made on living animals for purposes of scientific discovery.

It would seem to be generally believed, that by reason of experiments made within its walls upon the lower animals, discoveries of the utmost value to the human race are bing added to the resources of medical science.

In the discovery of anaesthesia, general and local, painful experiment on animals has played no indispensable part whatever.

Dinosaurs were unrecorded from Antarctica until 1987, when an ankylosaur was reported by a scientific party from Argentina, and in the winter of 1991 a prosauropod discovery made it onto the front pages of our newspapers.

These democrats of Appenzell have not yet made the American discovery that pulpits are profaned by any utterance of national sentiment, or any application of Christian doctrine to politics.

There is nothing your world can do to harm me, other than hinder my parameters and areas of exploration and scientific discovery.

SAS team could cope with anything except discovery, because that might very well mean death from an Arg helicopter gunship combing the area where someone had located them.

But, as both these claims of discovery present sufficient interest to the Australasian student, and are indirectly connected with our subject, we have not dismissed them entirely.

Delmar Morgan, two eminent writers on Australasian maritime discovery.

Hamy, himself a member of the French Institute in question, and one of the best informed scientists in matters relating to Australasian maritime discovery.