English-French translations for discovery

• découverte
  C'est une découverte très troublante. This is a very disturbing discovery.
  Aussi, l'Europe de la découverte doit être favorisée. We must also encourage a Europe of discovery.
  Une découverte ne peut pas non plus être détournée en invention. A discovery must not be recast as an invention.
• invention
  Une découverte ne peut pas non plus être détournée en invention. A discovery must not be recast as an invention.
  Cependant, le benchmarking n'est pas une invention nouvelle, contrairement à ce que l'on pourrait croire.Benchmarking is not a new discovery, as people might easily think.
  La question des droits de propriété a jeté la confusion entre découverte et invention. The issue of property rights has created confusion as to what is a discovery and what is an invention.

Definition of discovery

• Something discovered
• The discovering of new things
• An act of uncovering or revealing something; a revelation
• A pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered
• Materials revealed to the opposing party during the pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered

Examples

• This latest discovery should eventually lead to much better treatments for disease.
• The purpose of the voyage was discovery.
• Automatic discovery of RSS feeds by a Web browser.
• The prosecution moved to suppress certain items turned up during discovery.
• The defense argued that the plaintiffs discovery was inadequate.

Related words

• rediscovery
• autodiscovery
• e-discovery
• voyage of discovery
• price discovery