1.  development(n = noun.act) - 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"
is a kind of improvement
has particulars: advancement, progress, broadening, elaboration, working out, product development
Derived forms verb develop₁₁, verb develop₁

2.  development(n = noun.process) evolution - 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"
is a kind of physical process, process
has particulars: assibilation, deepening, growth, flowering, unfolding
Derived form verb develop₁₄

3.  development(n = noun.process) growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny - (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"
is a kind of biological process, organic process
has parts: gastrulation
has particulars: culture, amelogenesis, angiogenesis, apposition, auxesis, anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, inflorescence, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis, cohesion, cultivation, cytogenesis, cytogeny, foliation, leafing, fructification, gametogenesis, germination, sprouting, habit, infructescence, intussusception, juvenescence, life cycle, masculinisation, masculinization, virilisation, virilization, morphogenesis, myelinisation, myelinization, neurogenesis, palingenesis, recapitulation, proliferation, psychogenesis, psychogenesis, psychomotor development, psychosexual development, rooting, suppression, dentition, odontiasis, teething, teratogenesis, vegetation
Antonym: nondevelopment
Derived forms verb develop₄, verb develop₁₀, adjective developmental₁

4.  development(n = noun.event) - a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation; "recent developments in Iraq"; "what a revolting development!"
is a kind of alteration, change, modification
has particulars: turn, turn of events, twist, phenomenon, complication, ramification
Derived form verb develop₂₀

5.  development(n = noun.act) exploitation - 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"
is a kind of employment, exercise, usage, use, utilisation, utilization
has particulars: land development, water development, water program, water project, overexploitation, overuse, overutilisation, overutilization, capitalisation, capitalization, commercialisation, commercialization, electrification, unitisation, unitization
Derived form verb develop₆

6.  development(n = noun.location) - a district that has been developed to serve some purpose; "such land is practical for small park developments"
is a kind of district, dominion, territorial dominion, territory
has particulars: housing development, housing estate
Derived form verb develop₆

7.  development(n = noun.state) - 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"
is a kind of improvement, melioration
has particulars: underdevelopment
Derived forms verb develop₁₈, verb develop₁₇

8.  development(n = noun.process) developing - processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible; "the development and printing of his pictures took only two hours"
is a kind of processing
has particulars: underdevelopment
Derived form verb develop₁₅

9.  development(n = noun.communication) - (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated;
is a kind of section, subdivision

development, n.
1 the act or an instance of developing; the process of being developed.
2 a a stage of growth or advancement. b a thing that has developed, esp. an event or circumstance (the latest developments).
3 a full-grown state.
4 the process of developing a photograph.
5 a developed area of land.
6 Mus. the elaboration of a theme or themes, esp. in the middle section of a sonata movement.
7 Chess the developing of pieces from their original position.

Idiom:
development area Brit. one where new industries are encouraged in order to counteract unemployment.

N  increase, augmentation, enlargement, extension, dilatation, increment, accretion, accession, development, growth, aggrandizement, aggravation, rise, ascent, exaggeration exacerbation, spread, flood tide, gain, produce, product, profit, increased, on the increase, undiminished, additional, crescendo, vires acquirit eundo.

N  conversion, reduction, transmutation, resolution, assimilation, evolution, sea change, change of state, assumption, naturalization, transportation, development, developing, conversion of currency, exchange of currency, exchange rate, bureau de change, chemistry, alchemy, progress, growth, lapse, flux, passage, transit, transition, transmigration, shifting, phase, conjugation, convertibility, crucible, alembic, caldron, retort, convert, pervert, renegade, apostate, converted into, convertible, resolvable into, transitional, naturalized, gradually, &c (slowly) 275 in transitu.

N  effect, consequence, aftergrowth, aftercome, derivative, derivation, result, resultant, resultance, upshot, issue, denouement, end, development, outgrowth, fruit, crop, harvest, product, bud, production, produce, work, handiwork, fabric, performance, creature, creation, offspring, offshoot, firstfruits, firstlings, heredity, telegony, premices premises, owing to, resulting from, derivable from, due to, caused by, dependent upon, derived from, evolved from, derivative, hereditary, telegonous, of course, it follows that, naturally, consequently, as a consequence, in consequence, through, all along of, necessarily, eventually, cela va sans dire, thereby hangs a tale.

N  production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture, building, architecture, erection, edification, coinage, diaster, organization, nisus formativus, putting together, establishment, workmanship, performance, achievement, flowering, fructification, inflorescence, bringing forth, parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics, geniture, gestation, assimilation, evolution, development, growth, entelechy, fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation, fecundation, impregnation, albumen, spontaneous generation, archegenesis, archebiosis, biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis, authorship, publication, works, opus, oeuvre, biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny, tocogony, vacuolization, edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit, produced, producing, productive of, prolific, creative, formative, genetic, genial, genital, pregnant, enceinte, big with, fraught with, in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of, puerperal, puerperous, digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic, ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous, architectonic, ex nihilo nihil, fiat lux, materiam superabat opus, nemo dat quod non habet.

N  expansion, increase of size, enlargement, extension, augmentation, amplification, ampliation, aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction, turgescence, turgidness, turgidity, dispansion, obesity, hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus, dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension, puffing, puffiness, inflation, pandiculation, dilatability, expansibility, germination, growth, upgrowth, accretion, budding, gemmation, overgrowth, overdistension, hypertrophy, tympany, bulb, plumper, superiority of size, big bang, Hubble constant, expanded larger, &c (large), swollen, expansive, wide open, wide spread, flabelliform, overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical, pot bellied, swag bellied, edematous, oedematous, obese, puffy, pursy, blowzy, bigswoln, distended, patulous, bulbous, full blown, full grown, full formed, big, abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate, tumefacient, tumefying.

N  evolution, unfolding, development, evolvement, unfoldment, eversion, evolving, evolved.

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