evolution
noun
[ ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n ]
• the process by which different kinds of living organism are believed to have developed from earlier forms during the history of the earth.
• the gradual development of something.
• "the forms of written languages undergo constant evolution"
Similar:
development,
advancement,
growth,
rise,
progress,
progression,
expansion,
extension,
unfolding,
transformation,
adaptation,
modification,
revision,
reworking,
reconstruction,
recasting,
change,
transmogrification,
evolvement,
• the giving off of a gaseous product, or of heat.
• "the evolution of oxygen occurs rapidly in this process"
• a pattern of movements or manoeuvres.
• "flocks of waders often perform aerial evolutions"
• the extraction of a root from a given quantity.
Origin:
early 17th century: from Latin evolutio(n- ) ‘unrolling’, from the verb evolvere (see evolve). Early senses related to movement, first recorded in describing a ‘wheeling’ manoeuvre in the realignment of troops or ships. Current senses stem from a notion of ‘opening out’, giving rise to the sense ‘development’.
