DISCOVERY Synonyms

• the perception that something has occurred or some state exists

• the act of detecting something; catching sight of something

• the detection that a signal is being received

• a police investigation to determine the perpetrator

• the speech act of making something evident

• to travel for the purpose of discovery

• a careful systematic search

• a systematic consideration

• the act of determining the properties of something, usually by research or calculation

• the decision of a court on issues of fact or law

• something that is found

• the last book of the New Testament; contains visionary descriptions of heaven and of conflicts between good and evil and of the end of the world; attributed to Saint John the Apostle

• the speech act of making something evident

• an enlightening or astonishing disclosure

• communication of knowledge to man by a divine or supernatural agency

• discover by investigation

• recover through digging

• a productive insight

• the act of discovering something

• come upon, as if by accident; meet with

• discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes

• come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost

• establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study

• come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds

• perceive or be contemporaneous with

• get something or somebody for a specific purpose

• make a discovery, make a new finding

• obtain through effort or management

• decide on and make a declaration about

• receive a specified treatment (abstract)

• perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place

• get or find back; recover the use of

• succeed in reaching; arrive at

• accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation

• a productive insight

• making an important discovery

• a penetration of a barrier such as an enemy's defense