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de⋅vel⋅op⋅ment

  [di-vel-uhp-muhnt]
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–noun
1. the act or process of developing; growth; progress: child development; economic development.
2. a significant consequence or event: recent developments in the field of science.
3. a developed state or form: Drama reached its highest development in the plays of Shakespeare.
4. Music. the part of a movement or composition in which a theme or themes are developed.
5. a large group of private houses or of apartment houses, often of similar design, constructed as a unified community, esp. by a real-estate developer or government organization.
6. Chess. the act or process of developing chess pieces.
7. Mining. the work of digging openings, as tunnels, raises, and winzes, to give access to new workings, and of erecting necessary structures.
Origin:
1745–55; develop + -ment, or < F développement

Related forms:
de⋅vel⋅op⋅men⋅tal, de⋅vel⋅op⋅men⋅ta⋅ry, adjective
de⋅vel⋅op⋅men⋅tal⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. expansion, elaboration, growth, evolution; unfolding, opening, maturing, maturation. 3. maturity, ripeness. 5. community, subdivision.

Antonyms:
1. deterioration, disintegration.
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de·vel·op·ment   (dĭ-věl'əp-mənt)   
n.  
  1. The act of developing.
  2. The state of being developed.
  3. A significant event, occurrence, or change.
  4. A group of dwellings built by the same contractor.
  5. Determination of the best techniques for applying a new device or process to production of goods or services.
  6. The organized activity of soliciting donations or grants; fundraising.
  7. Music
    1. Elaboration of a theme with rhythmic and harmonic variations.
    2. The central section of a movement in sonata form, in which the theme is elaborated and explored.
de·vel'op·men'tal (-měn'tl) adj., de·vel'op·men'tal·ly adv.
Synonyms: These nouns mean a progression from a simpler or lower to a more advanced, mature, or complex form or stage: the development of an idea into reality; the evolution of a plant from a seed; attempts made to foster social progress.
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Development

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.
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Language Translation for : development
Spanish: desarrollo,
German: die Entwicklung,
Japanese: 発達
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Main Entry: de·vel·op·ment
Pronunciation: di-'vel-&p-m&nt
Function: noun
1 : the action or process of developing: as a : the process of growth and differentiation by which the potentialities of a zygote, spore, or embryo are realized b : the gradual advance through evolutionary stages : EVOLUTION
2 : the state of being developed development of weightlifters> —de·vel·op·men·tal /-"vel-&p-'ment-&l/ adjective —de·vel·op·men·tal·ly /-E/ adverb
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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development de·vel·op·ment (dĭ-věl'əp-mənt)
n.

  1. The act of developing.
  2. The state of being developed.
  3. A significant event, occurrence, or change.
  4. The natural progression from a previous, simpler, or embryonic stage to a later, more complex, or adult stage.
de·vel'op·men'tal (-měn'tl) adj.

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

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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