Evolutional - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: evolutionalEvolution
The act of unfolding or unrolling hence any process of growth or development as the evolution of a flower from a bud or an animal from the egg...
Evolutional
Relating to evolution...
Self evolution
Evolution of ones self development by inherent quality or power...
cenogenesis
The introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species as addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution a modified evolution in which nonprimitive characters make their appearance in consequence of a secondary adaptation of the embryo to the peculiar conditions of its environment distinguished from palingenesis...
Evolutionism
The theory of or belief in evolution See Evolution 6 and 7...
Ontogenesis
The history of the individual development of an organism the sequence of events involved in the development of an organism the history of the evolution of the germ the development of an individual organism in distinction from phylogeny or evolution of the tribe Called also henogenesis henogeny...
Convoy pennant
A white pennant with red border carried a Forward on all vessels on convoy duty b Alone by a senior officer present during evolutions or drills when it commands ldquoSilencerdquo c Over a signal number when it refers to the signal number of an officer in the Annual Navy Register...
Disassimilation
The decomposition of complex substances within the organism into simpler ones suitable only for excretion with evolution of energy a normal nutritional process the reverse of assimilation downward metabolism now more commonly called catabolism...
Epigenesis
The theory of generation which holds that the germ is created entirely new not merely expanded by the procreative power of the parents It is opposed to the theory of evolution also to syngenesis...
Evolute
A curve from which another curve called the involute or evolvent is described by the end of a thread gradually wound upon the former or unwound from it See Involute It is the locus of the centers of all the circles which are osculatory to the given curve or evolvent...
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