English Dictionary

evolution

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

(military) A manoeuvre of troops or ships. / (chiefly dance, sports) A turning movement, especially of the body. / (obsolete) A turned or twisted shape; an involution, a complex or intricate shape.

日本語の意味

(軍事) 部隊や艦船が行う機動または作戦的な動き / (主にダンス・スポーツ) 体の回転や方向転換の動き / (古語・廃用) 回転またはねじれた形状、すなわち複雑で入り組んだ形

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。

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 […].

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 […].

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.’

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.

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.

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.

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.

evolutions （ plural ）