英语词汇“evolutional”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

evolution /ē- or e-və-looˈshən/

noun

The cumulative change in the genetic composition of a population of an organism over succeeding generations, resulting in a species totally different from remote ancestors

The act of unrolling or unfolding (archaic)

The giving off (of heat, etc)

Gradual working out or development

A series of things following in sequence

The calculation of roots (mathematics)

(usu in pl) orderly movements eg of a body of troops, flock of birds, etc

ORIGIN: L ēvolūtiō, -ōnis, from ēvolvere; see evolve

evˈolute noun (mathematics)

An original curve from which another curve (the involute) is described by the end of a thread gradually unwound from the former

adjective

Rolled back

transitive verb

intransitive verb

To develop by evolution

evoluˈtional adjective

evoluˈtionally adverb

evoluˈtionarily adverb

evoluˈtionary adjective

Of or relating to evolution

evoluˈtionism noun

The doctrine of evolution

evoluˈtionist noun

A person who believes in evolution as a principle in science
A person skilled in evolutions or military movements

adjective

Of or relating to evolutionists

evolutionisˈtic adjective

evˈolutive adjective

evolutionarily stable strategy noun (biology)

A strategy that, if most members of a population adopt it, would give a reproductive fitness higher than any mutant strategy (abbrev ESS)