(n.) One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact.
(n.) A scout; an explorer.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are also problems with gestures such as swiping the screen because they're "inherently vague", and "lack discoverability": there's no way to tell what a gesture will do at any particular point.
(2) The company hired by Royal Dutch Shell plc in 2012 to drill on petroleum leases in the Chukchi — Sugarland, Texas-based Noble Drilling US LLC — in December agreed to pay $12.2m after pleading guilty to eight felony environmental and maritime crimes on board the Noble Discoverer.
(3) It has been named the Skywalker hoolock gibbon by its discoverers, who are Star Wars fans.
(4) Anatomists may take an especial interest in the letters No 1903 to HERDER and No 1904 to CHARLOTTE v. STEIN (both dated the March 27, 1784) which demonstrate the discoverer's mirth in finding out the human os intermaxillare.
(5) Politicians like to tell voters that their policies are a rational response to a perfectly discoverable set of facts.
(6) One of those funded is Discoverables Ltd, a company limited by shares set up by youth charity Spark+Mettle.
(7) The conclusion is that to Wells belongs the singular honor and title of discoverer.
(8) Yet for decades we thought it was just a hill made of glacial moraine," says discoverer Nick Card of the Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology .
(9) The word "scopolamine" is derived from "Scopolia carniolica", a solanaceous plant so named by Carl von Linné in honour of supposed discoverer, J.
(10) During an eclectic address – in which he questioned the audience of vice chancellors on basic science, including the name of the discoverer of sodium – Johnson said: "I looked at the recent figures for foreign students coming to this country, and I do not regard what seemed to me to be a reduction in those numbers as necessarily a positive economic indicator.
(11) The oil company was forced to send both ships – the Noble Discoverer and the Kulluk – to Asia for repair , effectively ruling out a return to drilling this calendar year.
(12) On Sunday, the birthday celebrations go public, with talks on cosmology by the Astronomer Royal Martin Rees, Nobel laureate Saul Perlmutter, one of the discoverers of dark energy, and long-time Hawking collaborator Kip Thorne.
(13) Due to the lowered resistance of the organism, acute pulpitic manifestations without discoverable external cause or exacerbation of chronic periapical processes may occur in the cours of influenza infections.
(14) "We think we have a really good relationship with the Journal because they recognise that even with the pay model they felt it was really important to ensure that their content is still discoverable.
(15) Whether incident reports are discoverable depends on the purpose of the reports and the laws of the state where the reports are filed.
(16) An account is given of teachers and discoverers of venereological importance after von Hebra and Sigmund to Arzt.
(17) Thus notions of the newborn as an isolated amoral id, and of the infant as an egocentric discoverer of the object concept, must be rejected.
(18) But there was still the problem of discoverability.
(19) Two of these patients had no discoverable primary tumour.
(20) In the meantime, BP has placed a containment cap on Deepwater Horizon's failed blow-out preventer which takes some of the oil and gas to a drillship, the Discoverer Enterprise .
Discovery
Definition:
(n.) The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot.
(n.) A making known; revelation; disclosure; as, a bankrupt is bound to make a full discovery of his assets.
(n.) Finding out or ascertaining something previously unknown or unrecognized; as, Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood.
(n.) That which is discovered; a thing found out, or for the first time ascertained or recognized; as, the properties of the magnet were an important discovery.
(n.) Exploration; examination.
Example Sentences:
(1) The recent discovery of nuclear retinoic acid receptors provides a basis for understanding how retinoic acid acts at the genetic level.
(2) Since the discovery of peptides in hypophysis and brain, several classes of these peptides have been tested on their putative antidepressive properties.
(3) The choice of drugs during anesthesia and per-operative resuscitation are discussed in this article together with particular situations such as pheochromocytoma in pregnancy or the per-operative discovery of a previously unrecognized pheochromocytoma.
(4) The concept of almost total breast biopsy has great merit in the discovery of occult carcinoma.
(5) After the gunfight the marines made the shocking discovery of bodies of 58 men and 14 women in a room, some piled on top of each other.
(6) Discovery of this vectorhost-parasite system in the Americas, and the localization of promastigote flagellates (leptomonads) in the hindgut of the vector, should assist in clarifying interpretative problems associated with infection of wild-caught flies in studies on leishmaniasis in the Americas and elsewhere.
(7) Markram's papers on synaptic plasticity and the microcircuitry of the neural cortex were enough to earn him a full professorship at the age of 40, but his discoveries left him restless and dissatisfied.
(8) The semistructured interview included questions concerning events preceding infants' death and the situation at the discovery of the death.
(9) The prolonged survival after discovery of malignancy in such families may be explained in part by diploidy of the lesions.
(10) The goal of the expedition, led by Prof Ken Takai of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was to study the limits of life at deep-sea vents in the Cayman Trough as part of a round-the-world voyage of discovery by the research ship RV Yokosuka .
(11) The discovery of this vast tranche of documents has prompted historians to suggest that a major reappraisal of the end of Britain's empire will be required once these materials have been digested – a "hidden history" if ever there were one.
(12) The FBI’s decision to reopen their criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s secret email server just 11 days before the election shows how serious this discovery must be,” the RNC chairman, Reince Priebus, said in a statement.
(13) The recently acquired knowledge of the importance of cell-mediated immunity in many illnesses and the discovery of a variety of substances that can restore certain cell-mediated immune functions has served to focus the attention of physicians on this area of immunity.
(14) Last year's physics Nobel was for the Higgs discovery and was only given to theorists, not experimentalists.
(15) But the study’s co-author Mark Hay, a professor from the Georgia Institute of Technology, said the discovery here was that greater carbon concentrations led to “some algae producing more potent chemicals that suppress or kill corals more rapidly”, in some cases in just weeks.
(16) Information about olfactory neuron microtubules may be applicable to neurons in general (e.g., the discovery that axons contain microtubules of uniform polarity was first made in the olfactory neuron) or to microtubules in other eukaryotic cells.
(17) These are some of the finest Neolithic monuments in the world, and in 1999 they were given World Heritage status by Unesco, an act that led directly to the discovery of the Ness of Brodgar.
(18) However, panniculitis leading to the discovery of chronic pancreatitis with a surgically treatable ductal abnormality has not been previously reported.
(19) A number of professionals have projected a rebound in the frequency of mental retardation associated with PKU since the discovery of MPKU.
(20) Based in London, Perrette oversees and sets the strategy for all of Discovery’s business outside the United States.