evolution
nounEtymology
Borrowed from Latin ēvolūtiō, ēvolūtiōnis (“the act of unrolling, unfolding or opening (of a book)”), from ēvolūtus, perfect passive participle of ēvolvō (“unroll, unfold”), from ex + volvō (“roll”). Compare typologically Czech vývoj, Serbo-Croatian развој, Russian разви́ть (razvítʹ), развива́ть (razvivátʹ), разви́ться (razvítʹsja), развива́ться (razvivátʹsja), Russian разви́тие (razvítije), related to Proto-Slavic *viti (whence Czech vít, Russian вить (vitʹ)).
- borrowed from ēvolūtiō
Definitions
A change of position.
- Mean while, he never failed to be present, when any regiment, or corps of men, were drawn out to be exercised and reviewed, and accompanied them in all their evolutions […].
- Major Holroyd, who acted as the General, was extremely polite, and attentive, and came to us between every evolution, to explain and talk over the manoeuvres.
An unfolding.
- The world […] might have been gradually produced from very small beginnings […] rather than by a sudden evolution of the whole by the Almighty fiat.
Process of development.
- The ongoing evolution of Lolita subculture fashion includes, among other things, the ballet style.
- Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.
The neighborhood
- antonymstagnationantonym(s) of “accumulation of change”
- antonymrevolutionantonym(s) of “gradual process”
- antonymextinctionantonym(s) of “survival through adaptation”
- neighborantievolutionary
- neighborevolute
- neighborevolutional
- neighborevolutionally
- neighborevolutionarily
- neighborevolutionary
- neighborevolutionism
- neighborevolutionist
- neighborevolutionistic
- neighborevolutionistically
- neighborevolutive
- neighborevolutor
Derived
antievolution, bioevolution, biological evolution, coevolution, co-evolution, convergent evolution, cosmic evolution, cultural evolution, deistic evolution, ecoevolution, Eeveelution, emergent evolution, evilution, evogram, evolutionary, Evolution Day, evolution denial, evolution denier, evolutiondidit, evolutionise, evolutionize, evolutionlike, evolution of the gaps, evotard, genetic evolution, karyoevolution, long term evolution, macroevolution, megaevolution, mesoevolution, metaevolution, meta-evolution, microevolution, morphoevolution, neoevolution, neuroevolution, organic evolution, orthoevolution, paleoevolution, participant evolution · +11 more
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for evolution. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA