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Quick definitions from WordNet (development)
▸ noun: act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining ("He congratulated them on their development of a plan to meet the emergency")
▸ noun: a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation ("Recent developments in Iraq")
▸ noun: a district that has been developed to serve some purpose ("Such land is practical for small park developments")
▸ noun: processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible ("The development and printing of his pictures took only two hours")
▸ 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")
▸ 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")
▸ noun: the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful ("The development of Alaskan resources")
▸ 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")
▸ Also see developments
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▸ noun: act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining ("He congratulated them on their development of a plan to meet the emergency")
▸ noun: a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation ("Recent developments in Iraq")
▸ noun: a district that has been developed to serve some purpose ("Such land is practical for small park developments")
▸ noun: processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible ("The development and printing of his pictures took only two hours")
▸ 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")
▸ 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")
▸ noun: the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful ("The development of Alaskan resources")
▸ 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")
▸ Also see developments
▸ Words similar to development
▸ Usage examples for development
▸ Idioms related to development (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing development
▸ Words that often appear near development
▸ Rhymes of development
▸ Invented words related to development