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Noun: discovery  di'skú-vu-ree
  1. The act of discovering something
    - find, uncovering
     
  2. Something that is discovered
     
  3. A productive insight
    - breakthrough, find
     
  4. (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

Derived forms: discoveries

Type of: act, brainstorm, brainwave, deed, disclosure, human action, human activity, insight, revealing, revelation

Encyclopedia: Discovery, Frederick County, Maryland