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Pronunciation:  di'velupmunt

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WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  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"
  2. [n]  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"
  3. [n]  a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation; "recent developments in Iraq"; "what a revolting development!"
  4. [n]  a district that has been developed to serve some purpose; "such land is practical for small park developments"
  5. [n]  processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible; "the development and printing of his pictures took only two hours"
  6. [n]  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"
  7. [n]  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"
  8. [n]  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"
 
 Synonyms: developing, evolution, exploitation, growing, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny
 
 Antonyms: degeneration, devolution, nondevelopment
 
 See Also: advancement, alteration, amelogenesis, angiogenesis, anthesis, apposition, assibilation, auxesis, biological process, blossoming, broadening, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, capitalisation, capitalization, cenogenesis, change, cohesion, commercialisation, commercialization, complication, culture, cytogenesis, deepening, dentition, district, efflorescence, elaboration, electrification, employment, exercise, florescence, flowering, foliation, fructification, gametogenesis, gastrulation, germination, growth, housing development, housing estate, improvement, improvement, inflorescence, intussusception, juvenescence, kainogenesis, kenogenesis, land development, leafing, life cycle, masculinisation, masculinization, melioration, modification, morphogenesis, myelinisation, myelinization, neurogenesis, odontiasis, organic process, overexploitation, overuse, overutilisation, overutilization, palingenesis, phenomenon, process, processing, product development, progress, proliferation, psychomotor development, psychosexual development, ramification, recapitulation, rooting, sprouting, suppression, teething, teratogenesis, territory, turn, turn of events, twist, underdevelopment, underdevelopment, unfolding, unitisation, unitization, usage, use, utilisation, utilization, vegetation, virilisation, virilization, water development, water program, water project, working out

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\De*vel"op*ment\, n. [Cf. F. d['e]veloppement.]
[Written also {developement}.]
1. The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown;
   a gradual unfolding process by which anything is
   developed, as a plan or method, or an image upon a
   photographic plate; gradual advancement or growth through
   a series of progressive changes; also, the result of
   developing, or a developed state.

         A new development of imagination, taste, and poetry.
                                               --Channing.

2. (Biol.) The series of changes which animal and vegetable
   organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic
   state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of
   organization.

3. (Math.)
   (a) The act or process of changing or expanding an
       expression into another of equivalent value or
       meaning.
   (b) The equivalent expression into which another has been
       developed.

4. (mus.) The elaboration of a theme or subject; the
   unfolding of a musical idea; the evolution of a whole
   piece or movement from a leading theme or motive.

{Development theory} (Biol.), the doctrine that animals and
   plants possess the power of passing by slow and successive
   stages from a lower to a higher state of organization, and
   that all the higher forms of life now in existence were
   thus developed by uniform laws from lower forms, and are
   not the result of special creative acts. See the Note
   under {Darwinian}.

Syn: Unfolding; disclosure; unraveling; evolution;
     elaboration; growth.
 
Computing Dictionary
 
 Definition: 

The process of analysis, design, coding and testing software.

 
Glossary
 
 Definition: the process whereby cells differentiate into different and specialized units.
 
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