evolution

Plural

evolutions

1. 1.A change of position.

   • "Look now, that pirouette -- my stars! how Beauchamp would stare to see his darling perform such an evolution!"
   • Major Holroyd, who acted as the General, was extremely polite, and attentive, and came to us between every evolution, to explain and talk over the manoeuvres.
   • It was a critical instant: the pirouette -- it would fail, she feared. … the rapid whirl achieved in exact time, the whole evolution executed to perfection.

2. 2.An unfolding.

   • Allantoxaidin is decomposed on heating, with evolution of ammonia and cyanic acid.
   • The world […] might have been gradually produced from very small beginnings […] rather than by a sudden evolution of the whole by the Almighty fiat.

3. 3.Process of development.

   • Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.
   • The ongoing evolution of Lolita subculture fashion includes, among other things, the ballet style.
   • Among other forms of change, the evolution of transportation has involved modification, diversification, convergence, divergence, hybridization, differentiation, and naturally, selection.

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