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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of, pertaining to, or causing evolution or development; evolutionary.

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  • adjective Of, pertaining to, or advocating evolution or development

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Examples

  • I had "evolutive" backups on hand of my data but it still took a day and half to manually drag or reinstall everything back to where it previously was.

    MacUpdate - Mac OS X 2009

  • The perspective in which the truth of poetry is placed by Sri Aurobindo is the infinite potential of man and the infinite possibility of his innate evolutive urge.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • Following taxa present an evolutive and phylogenetic interest: Archaeopteris belongs to Gymnosperma, Spermasposita is considered as the oldest flowering plant, while Petaloscorpio is the first terrestrial scorpion.

    Miguasha Provincial Park, Canada 2008

  • "So we might say that the cultural interests of the Maya yielded towards the intellectual achievement, at least in part because their physical and evolutive circumstances denied them the political and technological advancements that were more important to other societies."

    The Maya Civilization, Historical Conflict Part 1 2006

  • "So we might say that the cultural interests of the Maya yielded towards the intellectual achievement, at least in part because their physical and evolutive circumstances denied them the political and technological advancements that were more important to other societies."

    The Maya Civilization, Historical Conflict Part 1 2006

  • The perspective in which the truth of poetry is placed by Sri Aurobindo is the infinite potential of man and the infinite possibility of his innate evolutive urge.

    Sri Aurobindo’s unparalleled contributions to esoteric philosophy and poetry Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • However, I have run evolutive analyses on a number of chronologies and have never found any significant deviations over the length of the series.

    Woodhouse's Temperature Proxies!!! « Climate Audit 2007

  • However, this I suggest is a different scenario than if one is dealing with an existing stand of trees already established as trees, and again one method to test if there are possible changes in response would be to do some evolutive analyses over the length of the series to test for changes.

    Woodhouse's Temperature Proxies!!! « Climate Audit 2007

  • However, this I suggest is a different scenario than if one is dealing with an existing stand of trees already established as trees, and again one method to test if there are possible changes in response would be to do some evolutive analyses over the length of the series to test for changes.

    Dendroclimatologists Answer Back « Climate Audit 2007

  • Religion, culture & politics are essential components for effectuating any national resurgence, but they acquire an altogether new dimension when penetrated with the synthetic & evolutive vision of Sri Aurobindo & The Mother & thus develop the capacity of bringing about radical changes.

    Savitri Era Party is an amalgamation of politics, culture, and religion Tusar N Mohapatra 2007

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