discovery
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- n the act of discovering something
- n something that is discovered
- n a productive insight
- n (law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case
- Pretrial "discovery," which allows lawyers to search for facts and find out what evidence the other side plans to use, did not begin until 1972.
- The discovery earned him the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers' Gordon Bell Prize in 1989, considered the Nobel Prize of computing, and he was later hailed as one .
- A PTI cover story on Solving the mysteries of DNA -- The 50th Anniversary: Reliving Watson and Crick's historic discovery; How gene science has changed our lives; And Visions of .