development
Seed from Open English WordNet (OEWN) 2025
Meanings by context
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- definition act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining
- definition a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)
- definition (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
- definition a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation
- definition the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful
- definition a district that has been developed to serve some purpose
- definition a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess)
- definition processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible
- definition (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated