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.
Development; the act or result of developing what was implicit in an idea, argument etc.
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.