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Discovery (observation) - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Acquittal, Address, Affirmation, Announcement, Answer, Apostrophe, Assertion, Assumption, Attention, Attitude, Bugging |
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A discovery is a novel observation, usually of a natural phenomenon.
Contrast with: invention, technique, theory
Historical discoveries
The discovery that the Earth was not flat
Age of Exploration
The term has also been used for the beginning of contact between Europe
and an area of the world such as the Columbus's discovery of America.
Some find the latter use of the term objectionable as it ignores the
existence of indigenous peoples of an area who knew about it before
the Europeans.
Modern discoveries
Experiments by JJ Thomson in 1897 led to the discovery of a fundamental
building block of matter - electron.
The discovery of the structure of DNA.
The discovery of quasars.
See also: resource discovery
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