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discovery
discovery Discovery is the process, or the outcome of the process, of arriving at a new truth, fact, or relation among facts that was not already part of accepted knowledge.
Discovery is the process, or the outcome of the process, of arriving at a new truth, fact, or relation among facts that was not already part of accepted knowledge. It implies both an earlier idea or hypothesis and the later showing that this idea is objectively true, so it is closely linked with proof.