discovery

English

Alternative forms

• discoverie (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪsˈkʌvəɹi/

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Noun

discovery (countable and uncountable, plural discoveries)

1. Something discovered.

   This latest discovery should eventually lead to much better treatments for disease.

2. (uncountable) The discovering of new things.

   The purpose of the voyage was discovery.

   Automatic discovery of RSS feeds by a Web browser.

   • 1589, Richard Hakluyt, “Iohn Cabots Patent”, in The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Nevvberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], OCLC 753964576, page 509:

     The letters patents of king Henry the ſeuenth granted vnto Iohn Cabot and his three ſonnes, Lewis, Sebastian, and Sancius, for the discouerie of new and vnknowen lands.

3. (countable, archaic) An act of uncovering or revealing something; a revelation.
   • 1822, Alain René Le Sage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane

     Don Huberto actually fell in love with his kinswoman, and had presumption enough to declare his passion […] The lady being a woman of discretion, instead of making a discovery, which might have been attended with melancholy consequences, reprimanded her relation with gentleness […]

4. (law, uncountable) A pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.

   The prosecution moved to suppress certain items turned up during discovery.

5. (law, uncountable) Materials 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.

Derived terms

• e-discovery

Related terms

• discover
• discoverer

Translations

something discovered

• Albanian: zbulim (sq) m
• Arabic: اِكْتِشَاف‎ (ar) m (iktišāf)
• Armenian: հայտնագործություն (hy) (haytnagorcutʿyun)
• Asturian: descubrimientu m
• Azerbaijani: kəşf (az)
• Belarusian: адкры́цце n (adkrýccje), адкры́цьце n (adkrýcʹcje) (Taraškievica), адкрыццё n (adkryccjó), адкрыцьцё n (adkrycʹcjó) (Taraškievica)
• Bulgarian: откри́тие (bg) n (otkrítie)
• Catalan: descobriment (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 發現, 发现 (faat³ jin⁶)

  Mandarin: 發現 (zh), 发现 (zh) (fāxiàn)

• Czech: objev (cs) m
• Danish: opdagelse c
• Dutch: ontdekking (nl) f, vinding (nl) f
• Esperanto: malkovro
• Estonian: avastus
• Finnish: löytö (fi), löydös (fi)
• French: découverte (fr) f
• Galician: descubrimento (gl) m
• Georgian: აღმოჩენა (aɣmočena)
• German: Entdeckung (de) f
• Greek: ανακάλυψη (el) f (anakálypsi)

  Ancient: εὕρημα n (heúrēma)

• Haitian Creole: dekouvèt
• Hebrew: תַּגְלִית‎ f (taglít)
• Hindi: खोज (hi) f (khoj), आविष्कार (hi) m (āviṣkār)
• Hungarian: felfedezés (hu)
• Interlingua: discoperta
• Italian: scoperta (it) f
• Japanese: 発見 (ja) (はっけん, hakken)
• Kazakh: ашу (kk) (aşw)
• Korean: 발견(發見) (ko) (balgyeon)

• Kyrgyz: ачуу (ky) (açuu), ачылыш (ky) (açılış)
• Lao: ການຄົ້ນພົບ (kān khon phop)
• Latin: inventio (la) f, repertum n
• Latvian: atklāšana, atklājums m
• Lithuanian: atradimas m, atskleidimas m
• Macedonian: откри́тие n (otkrítie)
• Malay: penemuan
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: нээлт (mn) (neelt)

  Uyghurjin: ᠨᠡᠭᠡᠭᠡᠯᠲᠡ (negegelte)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: oppdagelse m

• Occitan: descobèrta (oc) f
• Persian: کشف‎ (fa) (kašf), اکتشاف‎ (fa) (ektešâf), یافته‎ (fa) (yâfte)
• Polish: odkrycie (pl) n
• Portuguese: descoberta (pt) f
• Romanian: descoperire (ro) f
• Russian: откры́тие (ru) n (otkrýtije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: откри́ће n

  Roman: otkríće (sh) n

• Slovak: objav m
• Slovene: odkritje (sl) n
• Spanish: descubrimiento (es) m, hallazgo (es) m
• Swedish: upptäckt (sv) c, fynd (sv) n
• Tajik: кашф (kašf), ихтироъ (ixtiroʾ), кашфиёт (kašfiyot), иктишоф (iktišof)
• Thai: การค้นพบ (th)
• Ukrainian: відкриття́ n (vidkryttjá)
• Urdu: انکشاف‎ (inkišāf)
• Uzbek: kashfiyot (uz), ixtiro (uz)
• Vietnamese: khám phá (vi)

the discovering of new things

• Arabic: اِكْتِشَاف‎ (ar) m (iktišāf)
• Asturian: descubrimientu m
• Bulgarian: откри́тие (bg) n (otkrítie)
• Catalan: descobriment (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 發現 (zh), 发现 (zh) (fāxiàn)

• Czech: objevování n, průzkum (cs) m
• Danish: opdagelse c
• Dutch: ontdekking (nl) f
• Esperanto: trovo (eo)
• Finnish: löytäminen (fi)
• French: découverte (fr) f
• Galician: descubrimento (gl) m
• Georgian: აღმოჩენა (aɣmočena)
• German: Entdeckung (de) f
• Greek: ανακάλυψη (el) f (anakálypsi)

  Ancient: εὕρημα f (heúrēma)

• Hebrew: גילוי‎ m (gilúy)

• Hungarian: felfedezés (hu)
• Interlingua: discoperta
• Italian: scoperta (it) f
• Japanese: 発見 (ja) (はっけん, hakken)
• Kazakh: ашу (kk) (aşw)
• Korean: 발견(發見) (ko) (balgyeon)
• Latin: inventio (la) f
• Latvian: atklāšana f
• Lithuanian: atradimas m
• Maori: tūhuratanga
• Occitan: descobèrta (oc) f
• Persian: کشف‎ (fa) (kašf), اکتشاف‎ (fa) (ektešâf)
• Polish: odkrywanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: descobrimento (pt) m, descoberta (pt) f
• Russian: откры́тие (ru) n (otkrýtije), открыва́ние (ru) n (otkryvánije)
• Slovak: hľadanie
• Spanish: descubrimiento (es) m, hallazgo (es) m
• Swedish: upptäckt (sv) c, fynd (sv) n
• Thai: การค้นหา (th)

legal: pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered

• Czech: vyšetřování (cs) n
• Finnish: tutkinta (fi)

• Hebrew: גילוי‎ m (gilúy), גילוי מסמכים‎ m (gilúy mismakhím)
• Spanish: descubrimiento (es) m

legal: materials revealed to the opposing party during the pre-trial phase

• Finnish: näyttö (fi)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} découverte (fr) f
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} scoperta (it) f
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} دۆزینەوە‎ (ku) (dozînewe)

• Lithuanian: (?) ^{(please verify)} atradinys m (1), (2) ^{(please verify)} atradimas m
• Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 發現 (zh), ^{(please verify)} 发现 (zh)
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} descoperire (ro)
• Slovene: (1) ^{(please verify)} odkritje (sl) n