evolution

Meanings

Plural: evolutions

Noun

• a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)
  • "the evolution of Greek civilization"
• (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms
• A change of position.
• A manoeuvre of troops or ships.
• A change of position.
• A turning movement, especially of the body.
• A change of position.
• A turned or twisted shape; an involution, a complex or intricate shape.
• An unfolding.
• The act or process of unfolding or opening out; the progression of events in regular succession.
• An unfolding.
• The opening out of a curve; now more generally, the gradual transformation of a curve by a change of the conditions generating it.
• An unfolding.
• The extraction of a root from a given power.
• An unfolding.
• The act or an instance of giving off gas; emission.
• Process of development.
• Development; the act or result of developing what was implicit in an idea, argument etc.
• Process of development.
• A process of gradual change in a given system, subject, product etc., especially from simpler to more complex forms.
• Process of development.
• The transformation of animals, plants and other living things into different forms (now understood as a change in genetic composition) by the accumulation of changes over successive generations.

Synonyms

development, organic evolution, phylogenesis, phylogeny

Antonyms

devolution, extinction, revolution, stagnation

Related Words

antievolutionary, Darwinism, evolute, evolutional, evolutionally, evolutionarily, evolutionary, evolutionism, evolutionist, evolutionistic, evolutionistically, evolutive, evolutor, Evolutor, evoluture, evolvable, evolve, evolvement, evolver, evolving, neo-Darwinism, nonevolutionary, unevolutionary