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- English Word Evolatical Definition Apt to fly away.
- English Word Evolation Definition A flying out or up.
- English Word Evolute Definition A curve from which another curve, called the involute or evolvent, is described by the end of a thread gradually wound upon the former, or unwound from it. See Involute. It is the locus of the centers of all the circles which are osculatory to the given curve or evolvent.
- English Word Evolutility Definition The faculty possessed by all substances capable of self-nourishment of manifesting the nutritive acts by changes of form, of volume, or of structure.
- English Word Evolution Definition The act of unfolding or unrolling; hence, in the process of growth; development; as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg.
- English Word Evolution Definition A series of things unrolled or unfolded.
- English Word Evolution Definition The formation of an involute by unwrapping a thread from a curve as an evolute.
- English Word Evolution Definition The extraction of roots; -- the reverse of involution.
- English Word Evolution Definition A prescribed movement of a body of troops, or a vessel or fleet; any movement designed to effect a new arrangement or disposition; a maneuver.
- English Word Evolution Definition A general name for the history of the steps by which any living organism has acquired the morphological and physiological characters which distinguish it; a gradual unfolding of successive phases of growth or development.
- English Word Evolution Definition That theory of generation which supposes the germ to preexist in the parent, and its parts to be developed, but not actually formed, by the procreative act; -- opposed to epigenesis.
- English Word Evolution Definition That series of changes under natural law which involves continuous progress from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous in structure, and from the single and simple to the diverse and manifold in quality or function. The pocess is by some limited to organic beings; by others it is applied to the inorganic and the psychical. It is also applied to explain the existence and growth of institutions, manners, language, civilization, and every product of human activity. The agencies and laws of the process are variously explained by different philosophrs.
- English Word Evolutional Definition Relating to evolution.
- English Word Evolutionary Definition Relating to evolution; as, evolutionary discussions.
- English Word Evolutionism Definition The theory of, or belief in, evolution. See Evolution, 6 and 7.
- English Word Evolutionist Definition One skilled in evolutions.
- English Word Evolutionist Definition one who holds the doctrine of evolution, either in biology or in metaphysics.
- English Word Evolve Definition To unfold or unroll; to open and expand; to disentangle and exhibit clearly and satisfactorily; to develop; to derive; to educe.
- English Word Evolve Definition To throw out; to emit; as, to evolve odors.
- English Word Evolve Definition To become open, disclosed, or developed; to pass through a process of evolution.