Definition:
- (n.) The act of unfolding or unrolling; hence, in the process of growth; development; as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg.
- (n.) A series of things unrolled or unfolded.
- (n.) The formation of an involute by unwrapping a thread from a curve as an evolute.
- (n.) The extraction of roots; -- the reverse of involution.
- (n.) A prescribed movement of a body of troops, or a vessel or fleet; any movement designed to effect a new arrangement or disposition; a maneuver.
- (n.) A general name for the history of the steps by which any living organism has acquired the morphological and physiological characters which distinguish it; a gradual unfolding of successive phases of growth or development.
- (n.) That theory of generation which supposes the germ to preexist in the parent, and its parts to be developed, but not actually formed, by the procreative act; -- opposed to epigenesis.
- (n.) That series of changes under natural law which involves continuous progress from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous in structure, and from the single and simple to the diverse and manifold in quality or function. The pocess is by some limited to organic beings; by others it is applied to the inorganic and the psychical. It is also applied to explain the existence and growth of institutions, manners, language, civilization, and every product of human activity. The agencies and laws of the process are variously explained by different philosophrs.
Compare evolution with other words:
evolution vs. exolution
evolation vs. evolution
evolution vs. volution
evolution vs. formation
evolution vs. rotation
evolution vs. time
evolution vs. phylogeny
evolution vs. phylogenetic
evolution vs. mutation
advancement vs. evolution
anthropogeny vs. evolution
evolution vs. reformation
evolution vs. vicissitude
evolution vs. reproduction
evolution vs. transformation
evolution vs. matter
evolution vs. expansion
evolution vs. mobile
evolution vs. resolution
adaption vs. evolution
evolution vs. hereditary
evolution vs. progress
evolution vs. heredity
darwinian vs. evolution
devolution vs. evolution
evolution vs. parallelism
evolution vs. heterochrony
evolution vs. purposive
content vs. evolution
evolution vs. zoogloea
cosmology vs. evolution
evolution vs. oligocene
evolution vs. pleistocene
convergence vs. evolution
evolution vs. palingenesis
evolution vs. primitive
evolution vs. integration
evolution vs. fermentation
emanation vs. evolution
darwinism vs. evolution
evolution vs. evolving
evolution vs. evolvement
evolution vs. evolutionist
evolution vs. evolutionism
evolution vs. evolutionary
evolution vs. evolutional
evolute vs. evolution
evolution vs. movement
evolution vs. quantity
evolution vs. root
emission vs. evolution
evolution vs. extraction
evolution vs. gas
evolution vs. generation
evolution vs. population
composition vs. evolution
development vs. evolution
evolution vs. genetic
evolution vs. growth
evolution vs. gradual
evolution vs. evolve
evolution vs. progressing
creationism vs. evolution
evolution vs. zoology
change vs. evolution
evolution vs. revolution
adaptation vs. evolution
abbreviation vs. evolution