Discovery
WordNet
noun
(1) The act of discovering something
(2) A productive insight
(3) Something that is discovered
(4) (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
WiktionaryText
Noun
- Something discovered.
- This latest discovery should eventually lead to much better treatments for disease.
- The discovering of new things.
- The purpose of the voyage was discovery.
- A pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.
- The prosecution moved to supress certain items turned up during discovery.
- Materials revealed to the opposing party during the pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.
- The defense argued that the plaintiff's discovery was inadequate.