DIRECT EVIDENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does direct evidence mean? 

• DIRECT EVIDENCE (noun)
  The noun DIRECT EVIDENCE has 1 sense:

1. evidence (usually the testimony of a witness) directly related to the fact in dispute

  Familiarity information: DIRECT EVIDENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIRECT EVIDENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Evidence (usually the testimony of a witness) directly related to the fact in dispute

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("direct evidence" is a kind of...):

evidence ((law) all the means by which any alleged matter of fact whose truth is investigated at judicial trial is established or disproved)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Antonym:

circumstantial evidence (evidence providing only a basis for inference about the fact in dispute)

 Context examples 

The new observations provide the first direct evidence that such mergers have been taking place even at the earliest stages of galaxy evolution, less than a billion years after the Big Bang.

(Stunning Star Birth in Earliest Galaxies, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The researchers first looked for direct evidence of enterovirus infection in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of 13 children and one adult diagnosed with AFM in 2018.

(Enterovirus antibodies detected in acute flaccid myelitis patients, National Institutes of Health)

These fossils provide direct evidence that these groups were formerly distributed in very different parts of the world to where they are presently found.

(Past climate change pushed birds from the northern hemisphere to the tropics, University of Cambridge)

The finding represents the first direct evidence of the presence of liquid-filled channels on Titan, as well as the first observation of canyons hundreds of meters deep.

(Cassini Finds Flooded Canyons on Titan, NASA)

But Dr. Joseph Su, an NIH expert in diet and cancer, says that direct evidence here is similarly hard to come by.

(Can Chocolate Really Be Good for You?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

We now have direct evidence that the cold accretion model is a viable explanation for rapid star formation in distant galaxies, says Matthew Benacquista, a program director in the National Science Foundation

(Spiraling filaments feed young galaxies, National Science Foundation’s Division of Astronomical Sciences.)

Geoscientists have discovered the first direct evidence that material from deep within Earth's mantle transition zone - a layer rich in water, crystals and melted rock - can percolate to the surface to form volcanoes.

(Scientists discover a new way volcanoes form, NSF)

Researchers from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) have produced the first direct evidence that parts of our brains implicated in mental disorders may be shaped by a residual echo from our ancient past.

(“Residual echo” of ancient humans in scans may hold clues to mental disorders, National Institutes of Health)

He and his colleagues argue that direct evidence in the form of teeth, bones and artifacts associated with the burial, as well as inferences from the evidence as to what time of year the children died and were buried, could lead to new thinking about how early societies were structured, how they viewed death and the importance of rituals associated with death and what stresses they faced in trying to survive.

(Archaeologists discover remains of Ice-Age infants in Alaska, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

New observations, made using the Keck Cosmic Web Imager at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, now provide the most direct evidence yet that filaments of cool gas spiral into young galaxies, supplying the fuel for stars.

(Spiraling filaments feed young galaxies, National Science Foundation’s Division of Astronomical Sciences.)