discovery

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the process of finding information, a place, or an object, especially for the first time, or the thing that is found:

discovery of Who is credited with the discovery of electricity?

make a discovery Leonardo made many scientific discoveries.

a journey/voyage of discovery

discovery of The discovery of a body in the undergrowth started a murder enquiry.

part of a legal process in which the lawyers from one side in a case give documents relating to their case to the other side, before the trial begins:

in discovery Among the thousands of documents Litt was able to obtain in discovery from the city was a memo written by a councilman's aide in response to one resident's complaint.

the act of finding something that had not been known before:

[ C ] Many scientific discoveries have been made by accident.

[ U ] The discovery of gold in California opened up the west.

A discovery is also something that you did not know about before:

[ C ] It was quite a discovery when I came upon this beautiful mountain stream.