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Development   /dɪvˈɛləpmənt/   Listen
Development

noun
(Written also developement)
1.
Act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining.  "They funded research and development"
2.
A process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage).  Synonym: evolution.  "The evolution of Greek civilization" , "The slow development of her skill as a writer"
3.
(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.  Synonyms: growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny.
4.
A recent event that has some relevance for the present situation.  "What a revolting development!"
5.
The act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful.  Synonym: exploitation.  "The exploitation of copper deposits"
6.
A district that has been developed to serve some purpose.
7.
A state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess).  "In chess your should take care of your development before moving your queen"
8.
Processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible.  Synonym: developing.
9.
(music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated.



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"Development" Quotes from Famous Books



... that Havana might be made a dangerous rival of Monte Carlo under the one-man power, exercising its despotism with benignant intelligence and spending its income honestly upon the development of both the city and the island. The motley populace would probably be none the worse for it. The Government could upon a liberal tariff collect not less than thirty-five millions of annual revenue. Twenty-five ...
— Marse Henry, Complete - An Autobiography • Henry Watterson
... great nerve invariably passes through it; and this clearly indicates that it is the homologue and rudiment of the supra-condyloid foramen of the lower animals. Prof. Turner estimates, as he informs me, that it occurs in about one per cent. of recent skeletons. But if the occasional development of this structure in man is, as seems probable, due to reversion, it is a return to a very ancient state of things, because in the higher Quadrumana ...
— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin
... idea that the table would be broken to pieces. In vain we withdrew from the table, hoping to diminish the power. The heavy blows increased in intensity, and the whole room shook with their force. The direst penalties were threatened if we again interfered with the development by bringing in new sitters. We have not ventured to do so again; and I do not think we shall easily be persuaded to risk ...
— Psychic Phenomena - A Brief Account of the Physical Manifestations Observed - in Psychical Research • Edward T. Bennett
... cleared his throat and remarked: "The development of marriage customs and ceremonies from primeval days is one of ...
— The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him • Paul Leicester Ford
... last. "The Erskine girl, or the Wilbur one? I tell you, Baker, with all the years of your acquaintance, you don't know that little Flossy as well as you think you do. Let me tell you, my man, there is something about her, or in her, that is capable of development, and that is being developed (or I am mistaken), that will make her the leader, in a quiet way, of a dozen decided and outspoken girls like those two, and of several men like yourself besides, if ...
— The Chautauqua Girls At Home • Pansy, AKA Isabella M. Alden


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