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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



... silence in which I might at last have laid my hand upon the indispensable, escaped idea, and from uttering the words which might have made that definite progress in the course of our love on which I was always obliged to count only for the following afternoon. There was, however, an occasional development. One day, we had gone with Gilberte to the stall of our own special vendor, who was always particularly nice to us, since it was to her that M. Swann used to send for his gingerbread, of which, for reasons of health (he suffered from a racial eczema, and from the ...
— Swann's Way - (vol. 1 of Remembrance of Things Past) • Marcel Proust
... the same time began to advance the same theory, but more guardedly and with less rashness of statement. It was not until thirty years after that it attained its full development in the annunciations of sectionists rather than statesmen. Two such ...
— The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government • Jefferson Davis
... that he had utterly refused to allow the Erie Auriferous Consolidated (as the friends of geology called themselves) to take over the top half of the Tomlinson farm. For the bottom part he let them give him one-half of the preferred stock in the company in return for their supply of development capital. This was their own proposition; in fact, they reckoned that in doing this they were trading about two hundred thousand dollars' worth of machinery for, say ten million dollars of gold. But ...
— Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich • Stephen Leacock
... Rails and Chapin, and enabled Miles to draw off and retire behind the breastworks. Thus the affair was really ended before Augur, whose duty it was to act with prudence, had time to complete the proper development of his division as for a battle with the full force of the enemy, which he was bound to suppose was about to engage him. Then he completed the task of making good his position, and proceeded to open communication with Banks ...
— History of the Nineteenth Army Corps • Richard Biddle Irwin
... noble woman, Maria Weston Chapman, said: "My friends, if all you say is true, regarding this young woman's business enterprise, practical sagacity and platform ability, I think $1,000 expended in her education and development for this work is one of the best investments that possibly could have been made." At the unanimous request of the committee Miss Anthony remained in office and during the year canvassed the entire state with her speakers. Mr. May wrote: "We cheerfully pay your expenses ...
— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper


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