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evolution

/ˌɛvəˈluʃən/

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Stress LOO.

Keep the final shun light. The earlier vowels vary across pronunciations.

4 syllables · Stress on syllable 3

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“The book introduces the study of evolution.”

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What does evolution mean?

noun

  1. A manoeuvre of troops or ships.
  2. A turning movement, especially of the body.
  3. The opening out of a curve; now more generally, the gradual transformation of a curve by a change of the conditions generating it.
More meanings (7)

noun

  1. The act or an instance of giving off gas; emission.
  2. Development; the act or result of developing what was implicit in an idea, argument etc.
  3. A process of gradual change in a given system, subject, product etc., especially from simpler to more complex forms.
  4. The transformation of animals, plants and other living things into different forms (now understood as a change in genetic composition) by the accumulation of changes over successive generations.
  5. (obsolete) A turned or twisted shape; an involution, a complex or intricate shape.
  6. (archaic) The act or process of unfolding or opening out; the progression of events in regular succession.
  7. (historical) The extraction of a root from a given power.
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IPA pronunciation

/ˌɛvəˈluʃən/

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/ˌɛvəˈluʃ(ə)n/
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In the pages of books

See this word in context.

He pointed out to me how unlikely it was that organic evolution had taken the same direction in the two adjacent planets.
H. G. (Herbert George) WellsThe war of the worldsProject Gutenberg ebook #36
Later on we shall consider from a philosophical point of view various consequences of the democratic evolution whose course we see accelerating.
Gustave Le BonThe Psychology of RevolutionProject Gutenberg ebook #448
More book examples (3)
But, more than this, these men gave a new basis for the theory of evolution as distinguished from the theory of creation.
Andrew Dickson WhiteHistory of the Warfare of Science with Theology in ChristendomProject Gutenberg ebook #505
Climate everywhere unquestionably influences life in its evolution, but it is not always easy to determine all of its effects in detail.
J. A. (Joseph Amasa) MunkArizona SketchesProject Gutenberg ebook #756
Devolution is quite as natural as evolution, and may be just as pleasing, or even a good deal more pleasing, to God.
H. L. (Henry Louis) MenckenIn Defense of WomenProject Gutenberg ebook #1270