discovery

英 [dɪ'skʌv(ə)rɪ] 美[dɪ'skʌvəri]

• n. 发现，发觉；被发现的事物

1. the act of discovering something

2. something that is discovered

3. a productive insight

4. (law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case