discovery (n.)

  1. the act of discovering something

    [ Syn: find , uncovering ]

  2. something that is discovered

  3. a productive insight

    [ Syn: breakthrough , find ]

  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

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