1. The act of discovering something
   "The discovery of the new species excited the scientific community";
   - find, uncovering
    
2. Something that is discovered
   "The archaeologists were excited by their discovery of ancient artifacts"
    
3. A productive insight
   "The team's discovery of a new antibiotic was hailed as a major breakthrough";
   - 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
   "The defence team requested discovery of all relevant emails"

Derived forms: discoveries

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

Encyclopedia: Discovery, Frederick County, Maryland