🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

evolução

Pronunciation / Transliteration: evolucao

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Evolution/ˌiːvəˈluːʃən/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"A evolução da tecnologia é constante e rápida."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The gradual development of something, especially from a simple to a more complex form.

    "The evolution of modern computing has been remarkably fast."
  2. 2

    The process by which different kinds of living organisms are believed to have developed from earlier forms during the history of the earth.

    "Darwin's theory of evolution explains how species adapt to their environments."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'evolutio' meaning 'an unrolling' (from 'evolvere'), used in English in the 17th century to mean the unrolling of a volume or a general unfolding, later shifting to biological development in the 19th century.

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