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discovery
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As a noun, discovery means something discovered.
Meanings of discovery
7 meaningsnoun
Something discovered.
“This latest discovery should eventually lead to much better treatments for disease.”
The discovering of new things.
“The purpose of the voyage was discovery.”
“Automatic discovery of RSS feeds by a Web browser.”
legalA pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.
“The prosecution moved to suppress certain items turned up during discovery.”
legalMaterials revealed to the opposing party during the pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.
“The defense argued that the plaintiff's discovery was inadequate.”
A productive insight
Similar: breakthrough, find(law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case
Older and rare meanings (1)
archaicAn act of uncovering or revealing something; a revelation.
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).