Definitions For Development

noun

• Act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining
• The act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful
• (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated
• A recent event that has some relevance for the present situation
• A district that has been developed to serve some purpose
• Processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible
• A process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)
• (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
• A state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess)
• The act or process of growing or causing something to grow or become larger or more advanced
• The act or process of creating something over a period of time
• The state of being created or made more advanced