evolve

Meaning

Verb

  • To move in regular procession through a system.
  • To change; transform.
  • To come into being; develop.
  • Of a population, to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
  • Of a trait, to develop within a population via biological evolution.
  • Of a population, to acquire or develop (a trait) in the process of biological evolution.
  • To give off (gas, such as oxygen or carbon dioxide during a reaction).
  • To cause something to change or transform.

Origin

  • Borrowed from Latin ēvolvō, from ē- (short form of ex) + volvō.

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