evolution

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/|/ɛvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/    美 /ˌɛvəˈluʃ(ə)n/|/ˌivə-/|/ɛvəˈlʉːʃən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A change of position.; A manoeuvre of troops or ships. countable,uncountable
    — Mean while, he never failed to be present, when any regiment, or corps of men, were drawn out to be exercised and reviewed, and accompanied them in all their evolutions […].
  2. A change of position.; A turning movement, especially of the body. countable,uncountable
    — Our necromancer […] taking up his wand, waved it around his head in a very mysterious motion, with a view of intimidating these forward visitants, who, far from being awed by this sort of evolution, became more and more obstreperous […].
  3. A change of position.; A turned or twisted shape; an involution, a complex or intricate shape. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — ‘It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crouded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists.’
  4. An unfolding.; The act or process of unfolding or opening out; the progression of events in regular succession. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — The world […] might have been gradually produced from very small beginnings […] rather than by a sudden evolution of the whole by the Almighty fiat.
  5. An unfolding.; The opening out of a curve; now more generally, the gradual transformation of a curve by a change of the conditions generating it. countable,uncountable
  6. An unfolding.; The extraction of a root from a given power. countable,historical,uncountable
  7. An unfolding.; The act or an instance of giving off gas; emission. countable,uncountable
  8. Process of development.; Development; the act or result of developing what was implicit in an idea, argument etc. countable,uncountable
    — The ongoing evolution of Lolita subculture fashion includes, among other things, the ballet style.
  9. Process of development.; A process of gradual change in a given system, subject, product etc., especially from simpler to more complex forms. countable,uncountable
    — Among other forms of change, the evolution of transportation has involved modification, diversification, convergence, divergence, hybridization, differentiation, and naturally, selection.
  10. Process of development.; The transformation of animals, plants and other living things into different forms (now understood as a change in genetic composition) by the accumulation of changes over successive generations. countable,uncountable
    — […]and thus he [Lamarck] was inclined to assert the priority of the types of marine animals to those of the terrestrial, and to fancy, for example, that the testacea of the ocean existed first, until some of them, by gradual evolution, were improved into those inhabiting the land.

词形变化

evolutions plural

词汇关系

反义词
stagnation revolution extinction
衍生词
antievolution bioevolution biological evolution coevolution co-evolution convergent evolution cosmic evolution cultural evolution deistic evolution ecoevolution Eeveelution emergent evolution evilution evogram evolutionary Evolution Day evolution denial evolution denier evolutiondidit evolutionise evolutionize evolutionlike evolution of the gaps evotard genetic evolution karyoevolution long term evolution macroevolution megaevolution mesoevolution metaevolution meta-evolution microevolution morphoevolution neoevolution neuroevolution organic evolution orthoevolution paleoevolution participant evolution photoevolution planetary evolution quantum evolution self-evolution social evolution speculative evolution stellar evolution theistic evolution time evolution unilineal evolution unilinear evolution
相关词
antievolutionary evolute evolutional evolutionally evolutionarily evolutionary evolutionism evolutionist evolutionistic evolutionistically evolutive evolutor evoluture evolvable evolve evolvement evolver evolving nonevolutionary unevolutionary Darwinism neo-Darwinism

词源

Borrowed from Latin ēvolūtiō, ēvolūtiōnis (“the act of unrolling, unfolding or opening (of a book)”), from ēvolūtus, perfect passive participle of ēvolvō (“unroll, unfold”), from ex + volvō (“roll”).
Compare typologically Czech vývoj, Serbo-Croatian развој, Russian разви́ть (razvítʹ), развива́ть (razvivátʹ), разви́ться (razvítʹsja), развива́ться (razvivátʹsja), Russian разви́тие (razvítije), related to Proto-Slavic *viti (whence Czech vít, Russian вить (vitʹ)).
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