DEVELOPMENT
Definition:
- [noun] act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining; "he congratulated them on their development of a plan to meet the emergency"; "they funded research and development"
- [noun] a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage); "the development of his ideas took many years"; "the evolution of Greek civilization"; "the slow development of her skill as a writer"
Synonyms: evolution
- [noun] a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation; "recent developments in Iraq"; "what a revolting development!"
- [noun] the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful; "the development of Alaskan resources"; "the exploitation of copper deposits"
Synonyms: exploitation
- [noun] a district that has been developed to serve some purpose; "such land is practical for small park developments"
- [noun] a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess); "after he saw the latest development he changed his mind and became a supporter"; "in chess your should take care of your development before moving your queen"
- [noun] (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children"
Synonyms: growth, growing, maturation, ontogeny, ontogenesis
- [noun] processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible; "the development and printing of his pictures took only two hours"
Synonyms: developing
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Related Words:
- advancement, progress
- broadening
- elaboration, working out
- product development
- assibilation
- deepening
- growth
- unfolding, flowering
- turn, turn of events, twist
- phenomenon
- complication, ramification
- land development
- water development, water project, water program
- overexploitation, overuse, overutilization, overutilisation
- capitalization, capitalisation
- commercialization, commercialisation
- electrification
- unitization, unitisation
- housing development
- housing estate
- underdevelopment
- culture
- amelogenesis
- angiogenesis
- apposition
- auxesis
- blossoming, flowering, florescence, inflorescence, anthesis, efflorescence
- cenogenesis, kenogenesis, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, kainogenesis
- cohesion
- cytogenesis, cytogeny
- foliation, leafing
- fructification
- gametogenesis
- germination, sprouting
- infructescence
- intussusception
- juvenescence
- life cycle
- masculinization, masculinisation, virilization, virilisation
- morphogenesis
- myelinization, myelinisation
- neurogenesis
- palingenesis, recapitulation
- proliferation
- psychomotor development
- psychosexual development
- rooting
- suppression
- teething, dentition, odontiasis
- teratogenesis
- vegetation
- underdevelopment
