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Meaning of EVOLUTION

Pronunciation:  `evu'looshun

WordNet Dictionary
  2. [n]  (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms

EVOLUTION is a 9 letter word that starts with E.


 Synonyms: development, phylogenesis, phylogeny
 Antonyms: degeneration, devolution
 See Also: anamorphosis, anthropogenesis, anthropogeny, assibilation, biological process, deepening, emergent evolution, flowering, growth, macroevolution, microevolution, organic process, process, speciation, unfolding



Webster's 1913 Dictionary
['e]volution evolution. See {Evolve}.]
   a bud, or an animal from the egg.


   thread from a curve as an evolute. --Hutton.


   or a vessel or fleet; any movement designed to effect a
   new arrangement or disposition; a maneuver.

         Those evolutions are best which can be executed with
         the greatest celerity, compatible with regularity.

6. (Biol.)
       any living organism has acquired the morphological and
       physiological characters which distinguish it; a
       gradual unfolding of successive phases of growth or
   (b) That theory of generation which supposes the germ to
       developed, but not actually formed, by the procreative
       act; -- opposed to epigenesis.

   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.

         Evolution is to me series with development.

Biology Dictionary
 Definition: In biological terms: a change in the genetic composition of a population over time.
  2. the process by which small but cumulative changes in a species can, over time, lead to its transformation; may be divided into two categories: physical evolution (adaptive changes in biological makeup) and cultural evolution (adaptive changes in thought and behavior).
Thesaurus Terms
 Related Terms: addition, advance, approximation, beautification, change, developing, development, differentiation, division, elaboration, embellishment, equation, evolvement, evolving, extrapolation, flowering, formation, growing, growth, integration, interpolation, inversion, involution, maturation, multiplication, notation, perfection, phylogeny, practice, production, progress, progression, proportion, reduction, refinement, ripening, seasoning, subtraction, transformation, unfolding, upgrowth