evolutions
- 1Plural of evolution.
The aircraft executed a series of complex evolutions above the runway.
Historians traced the gradual evolutions of several rival city-states.
Note
A plural most at home on the parade ground and at sea: evolutions are the maneuvers of troops or ships, or the turning movements of a body. Each maneuver is countable, so the plural comes easily. Older uses (an intricate twisted shape, the unfolding of events, the mathematician's extraction of a root) are obsolete, archaic or historical, so a modern reader meeting the plural should usually picture movement.
evolutions is a form of evolution
evolution, noun: The process by which living things gradually change into new forms over many generations through the buildup of inherited genetic variation. Full entry
- Forms
- evolutionevolutions plural
- Spelling
- evolution → evolutions: add -s
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