evolution

英語（米国） (en-US) 英語（イギリス） (en-GB)

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 廃用 古語 歴史的

slow, steady change or development

日本語の意味

進化 / 発展 / 漸進的な変化 / 展開

英語の意味

slow, steady change or development

やさしい日本語

ものごとが時間（じかん）をかけて少（すこ）しずつ変（か）わり、発展（はってん）することです。

ラオ語（ラオス語）

ການປ່ຽນແປງຫຼືພັດທະນາຢ່າງຄ່ອຍໆ / ວິວັດທະນາການ

ウズベク語

bosqichma-bosqich rivojlanish / asta-sekin o‘zgarish / tadrijiy taraqqiyot

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The regiment completed an evolution behind enemy lines before dawn.

その連隊は夜明け前に敵陣の背後で機動を完了した。

やさしい日本語訳

連隊（れんたい）は、夜（よる）が明（あ）ける前（まえ）に、敵（てき）の前線（ぜんせん）の後（うし）ろで部隊（ぶたい）の移動（いどう）を終（お）えました。

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意味（1）

(military) A manoeuvre of troops or ships.

Mean while, he never failed to be present, when any regiment, or corps of men, were drawn out to be exercised and reviewed, and accompanied them in all their evolutions […].

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意味（2）

(chiefly dance, sports) A turning movement, especially of the body.

Our necromancer […] taking up his wand, waved it around his head in a very mysterious motion, with a view of intimidating these forward visitants, who, far from being awed by this sort of evolution, became more and more obstreperous […].

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意味（3）

(obsolete) A turned or twisted shape; an involution, a complex or intricate shape.

‘It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crouded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists.’

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意味（4）

(now rare) The act or process of unfolding or opening out; the progression of events in regular succession.

The world […] might have been gradually produced from very small beginnings […] rather than by a sudden evolution of the whole by the Almighty fiat.

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意味（5）

(geometry) The opening out of a curve; now more generally, the gradual transformation of a curve by a change of the conditions generating it.

意味（6）

(mathematics, now chiefly historical) The extraction of a root from a given power.

意味（7）

(chemistry) The act or an instance of giving off gas; emission.

意味（8）

Development; the act or result of developing what was implicit in an idea, argument etc.

The ongoing evolution of Lolita subculture fashion includes, among other things, the ballet style.

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意味（9）

A process of gradual change in a given system, subject, product etc., especially from simpler to more complex forms.

Among other forms of change, the evolution of transportation has involved modification, diversification, convergence, divergence, hybridization, differentiation, and naturally, selection.

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意味（10）

(biology) The transformation of animals, plants and other living things into different forms (now understood as a change in genetic composition) by the accumulation of changes over successive generations.

[…]and thus he [Lamarck] was inclined to assert the priority of the types of marine animals to those of the terrestrial, and to fancy, for example, that the testacea of the ocean existed first, until some of them, by gradual evolution, were improved into those inhabiting the land.

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evolutions （ plural ）