Look up: serendipity

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   serendipity
   [n] - pure luck in discovering things you were not looking for
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   Serendipity
   Serendipity: An accidental and fortunate discovery. Not all good medical research by any means is done by design. Some is by serendipity, pure good luck. A celebrated instance of serendipity in biomedical research took place in 1928 at St Mary's Hospital in London. While studying staphylococci (staph bacteria), the physician and microbiologist Alex ...
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   serendipity
   Accidental discovery; in science, finding one thing while looking for something else, as in Fleming's discovery of penicillin. ... Origin: coined by Horace Walpole and relates to The Three Princes of Serendip, fr. Alternate spelling of Serendib, ancient name for Sri Lanka ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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   serendipity
   noun good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries
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   Serendipity
   `Serendipity` is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely. The word derives from an old Persian fairy tale and was coined by Horace Walpole on 28 January 1754 in a letter he wrote to his friend Horace Mann (not the same man as the famed American educator), an Englishman then living in Florence. The letter read,
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   serendipity
   serendipity 1. An aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident. 2. The faculty of making fortunate discoveries unexpectedly. 3. The accidental discovery of something pleasant, valuable, or useful. 4. A natural gift for making pleasant, valuable, or useful discoveries without anticipating such results. 5. An apparent aptitude for making fortunate d...
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