discovery-n; 3 Senses

Sense Number 1: finding or insight

Commentary: DISCOVERY[+event] find, uncovering, breakthrough - the act of discovering something

Examples:
Their discovery of the treasure in the backyard made them rich.
Since her discovery of the stray cat she's been a happier child.

Mappings:
PropBank: discovery.01
WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 1 3

Sense Number 2: thing found

Commentary: something that is discovered

Examples:
Fido's new discovery suddenly jumped up and hopped across the yard.
John's picked up his discovery and place it into his pocket.

Mappings:
PropBank: discovery.01
WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 2

Sense Number 3: disclosure of facts

Commentary: (law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to the case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case

Examples:
They used electronic discovery and evidence resources.
Evidence and data discovery was done the night before the trial.

Mappings:
PropBank: discovery.01
WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 4