Meaning as derived and conveyed thereby: The literal meaning of a term according to its origin, which may differ from its usual meaning when the latter relies on idiomatic conventions that are not conveyed by the term alone (that is, they must be known in other ways, such as experience, training, education, or dictionary lookup).
The original or earlier form of an inherited or borrowed word, affix, or morpheme either from an earlier period in a language's development, from an ancestral language, or from a foreign language.
Development; the act or result of developing what was implicit in an idea, argument etc.
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.
The extraction of a root from a given power.
A manoeuvre of troops or ships.
A process of gradual change in a given system, subject, product etc., especially from simpler to more complex forms.
A turning movement, especially of the body.
The opening out of a curve; now more generally, the gradual transformation of a curve by a change of the conditions generating it.
The act or an instance of giving off gas; emission.