名複: evolutions
n.
- 發展,進展[U]
- (生物的)進化,演化;進化論[U]
- (氣體的)放出[U]
- 進化出來的東西[C]
衍生
a.
evolutional
a.
evolutionary
n.
evolutionist
n.
evolutionism
辨析
同義:
n.發育,發展
evolvement development growth survival of the fittest phylogeny progression successionn.發生,演變
turn transformation change mutation metamorphosis反義:
n.「發展;進化」的反義字
devolution同義參見:
formation nature以上來源於:《英漢大辭典》
/ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n, ˈɛv-/
n.
- the process by which different kinds of living organism are believed to have developed from earlier forms, especially by natural selection.
- gradual development.
- Chemistry the giving off of a gaseous product, or of heat.
- a pattern of movements or manoeuvres.
- Mathematics, dated the extraction of a root from a given quantity.
Derivative
- evolutional adj.
- evolutionally adv.
- evolutionarily adv.
- evolutionary adj.
- evolutive adj.
Etymology
C17: from L. evolutio(n-) ‘unrolling’, from evolvere (see evolve).
以上來源於:《簡明牛津英語詞典》