Discovery - Definition and Overview

Discovery has multiple meanings:

• For observing or finding something unknown to one's culture, see discovery (observation).
• For the process, in courts of law, of reciprocal disclosure as a preliminary stage, see discovery (law).
• For the process of a little known performer's quick emergence triggered by new management, see discovery (public relations).
• Several ships have been named Discovery:
  • Discovery was a 17th century ship of England's East India Company.
  • Several Royal Research Ships of the United Kingdom have been named RRS Discovery, the most famous being the ship that Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton used to explore Antarctica in 1902–1904.
  • Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Discovery.
• For the U.S. earth-to-orbit vehicle, see space shuttle Discovery.
• For the NASA space science program, see Discovery Program.
• For the spacecraft of the Star Trek fiction cycle, see starship Discovery.
• For disambiguation of musical albums by various groups, see Discovery (album).
• For the PBS series of TV documentaries, see Discovery.
• For the American cable television channel, see Discovery Channel.
• For a credit card, see Discovery (credit card).
• For the Land Rover vehicle, see Land Rover Discovery

See also: Discover