has particulars: culture, amelogenesis, angiogenesis, apposition, auxesis, anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, inflorescence, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis, cohesion, cultivation, cytogenesis, cytogeny, foliation, leafing, fructification, gametogenesis, germination, sprouting, habit, infructescence, intussusception, juvenescence, life cycle, masculinisation, masculinization, virilisation, virilization, morphogenesis, myelinisation, myelinization, neurogenesis, palingenesis, recapitulation, proliferation, psychogenesis, psychogenesis, psychomotor development, psychosexual development, rooting, suppression, dentition, odontiasis, teething, teratogenesis, vegetation

has parts: gastrulation

is a kind of biological process, organic process

Derived forms verb develop₄, verb develop₁₀, adjective developmental₁

Antonym: nondevelopment

development(n = noun.event) Array - a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation; "recent developments in Iraq"; "what a revolting development!"

has particulars: turn, turn of events, twist, phenomenon, complication, ramification

Derived form verb develop₂₀

development(n = noun.act) exploitation - the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful; "the development of Alaskan resources"; "the exploitation of copper deposits"

is a kind of employment, exercise, usage, use, utilisation, utilization

has particulars: land development, water development, water program, water project, overexploitation, overuse, overutilisation, overutilization, capitalisation, capitalization, commercialisation, commercialization, electrification, unitisation, unitization

Derived form verb develop₆

development(n = noun.location) Array - a district that has been developed to serve some purpose; "such land is practical for small park developments"

has particulars:

housing development

housing estate

is a kind of district, dominion, territorial dominion, territory

Derived form verb develop₆

development(n = noun.state) Array - 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"; "in chess your should take care of your development before moving your queen"

is a kind of

improvement

melioration

has particulars: underdevelopment

Derived forms verb develop₁₈, verb develop₁₇

development(n = noun.process) developing - processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible; "the development and printing of his pictures took only two hours"

is a kind of processing

has particulars: underdevelopment

Derived form verb develop₁₅

development(n = noun.communication) Array - (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated; Array

OXFORD DICTIONARY

development, n.
1 the act or an instance of developing; the process of being developed.
2 a a stage of growth or advancement. b a thing that has developed, esp. an event or circumstance (the latest developments).
3 a full-grown state.
4 the process of developing a photograph.
5 a developed area of land.
6 Mus. the elaboration of a theme or themes, esp. in the middle section of a sonata movement.
7 Chess the developing of pieces from their original position.

Idiom

development area Brit. one where new industries are encouraged in order to counteract unemployment.

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THESAURUS

development

abiogenesis, access, accession, accomplishment, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, action, addition, advance, advancement, aggrandizement, aging, amplification, anacrusis, anagnorisis, angle, appreciation, apprenticeship, archigenesis, architectonics, architecture, argument, ascent, atmosphere, augmentation, background, ballooning, basic training, bass passage, beautification, biogenesis, birth, blastogenesis, bloating, blossoming, boom, boost, bourdon, breaking, breeding, bridge, broadening, budding, buildup, burden, burgeoning, by-product, cadence, catastrophe, characterization, chorus, circumstance, coda, color, complication, condition, conditioning, consequence, consequent, continuity, contrivance, corollary, crescendo, cultivation, denouement, derivation, derivative, design, developmental change, device, digenesis, dilation, discipline, distillate, division, drill, drilling, edema, effect, elaboration, elevation, embellishment, enlargement, epigenesis, episode, eumerogenesis, event, eventuality, eventuation, evolution, evolutionary change, evolvement, evolving, excrescence, exercise, expansion, expatiation, explication, exposition, extension, fable, falling action, fetching-up, figure, flood, flowering, folderol, fostering, fruit, furtherance, gain, gemmation, generation, genesis, germination, gimmick, gradual change, greatening, grooming, growth, gush, happening, harmonic close, harvest, heterogenesis, hike, histogenesis, homogenesis, housebreaking, improvement, in-service training, incident, increase, increment, inflation, interlude, intermezzo, introductory phrase, isogenesis, issue, jump, leap, legacy, line, local color, logical outcome, manual training, maturation, maturescence, maturing, maturity, measure, mellowing, merogenesis, metagenesis, military training, monogenesis, mood, motif, mounting, movement, multiplication, musical phrase, musical sentence, mythos, natural development, natural growth, nonviolent change, nurture, nurturing, occurrence, offshoot, offspring, on-the-job training, ongoing, ornament, orthogenesis, outcome, outgrowth, overgrowth, pangenesis, part, parthenogenesis, passage, perfection, period, peripeteia, phenomenon, phrase, plan, plot, practice, precipitate, preparation, procreation, product, productiveness, progress, progression, proliferation, pullulation, raise, raising, readying, rearing, recognition, refinement, refrain, rehearsal, reproduction, resolution, response, result, resultant, ripening, rise, rising action, ritornello, scheme, seasoning, secondary plot, section, senescence, sequel, sequela, sequence, sequent, situation, slant, sloyd, snowballing, spontaneous generation, spread, sprouting, stanza, statement, story, strain, structure, subject, subplot, surge, swelling, switch, tailpiece, tempering, thematic development, theme, tone, topic, training, tumescence, tutti, tutti passage, twist, unfolding, up, upbringing, upgrowth, upping, upshot, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, variation, vegetation, verse, vocational education, vocational training, waxing, widening, working-out

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ROGET THESAURUS

development

Increase

N increase, augmentation, enlargement, extension, dilatation, increment, accretion, accession, development, growth, aggrandizement, aggravation, rise, ascent, exaggeration exacerbation, spread, flood tide, gain, produce, product, profit, increased, on the increase, undiminished, additional, crescendo, vires acquirit eundo.

Conversion

N conversion, reduction, transmutation, resolution, assimilation, evolution, sea change, change of state, assumption, naturalization, transportation, development, developing, conversion of currency, exchange of currency, exchange rate, bureau de change, chemistry, alchemy, progress, growth, lapse, flux, passage, transit, transition, transmigration, shifting, phase, conjugation, convertibility, crucible, alembic, caldron, retort, convert, pervert, renegade, apostate, converted into, convertible, resolvable into, transitional, naturalized, gradually, &c (slowly) 275 in transitu.

Effect

N effect, consequence, aftergrowth, aftercome, derivative, derivation, result, resultant, resultance, upshot, issue, denouement, end, development, outgrowth, fruit, crop, harvest, product, bud, production, produce, work, handiwork, fabric, performance, creature, creation, offspring, offshoot, firstfruits, firstlings, heredity, telegony, premices premises, owing to, resulting from, derivable from, due to, caused by, dependent upon, derived from, evolved from, derivative, hereditary, telegonous, of course, it follows that, naturally, consequently, as a consequence, in consequence, through, all along of, necessarily, eventually, cela va sans dire, thereby hangs a tale.

Production

N production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture, building, architecture, erection, edification, coinage, diaster, organization, nisus formativus, putting together, establishment, workmanship, performance, achievement, flowering, fructification, inflorescence, bringing forth, parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics, geniture, gestation, assimilation, evolution, development, growth, entelechy, fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation, fecundation, impregnation, albumen, spontaneous generation, archegenesis, archebiosis, biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis, authorship, publication, works, opus, oeuvre, biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny, tocogony, vacuolization, edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit, produced, producing, productive of, prolific, creative, formative, genetic, genial, genital, pregnant, enceinte, big with, fraught with, in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of, puerperal, puerperous, digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic, ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous, architectonic, ex nihilo nihil, fiat lux, materiam superabat opus, nemo dat quod non habet.

Expansion

N expansion, increase of size, enlargement, extension, augmentation, amplification, ampliation, aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction, turgescence, turgidness, turgidity, dispansion, obesity, hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus, dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension, puffing, puffiness, inflation, pandiculation, dilatability, expansibility, germination, growth, upgrowth, accretion, budding, gemmation, overgrowth, overdistension, hypertrophy, tympany, bulb, plumper, superiority of size, big bang, Hubble constant, expanded larger, &c (large), swollen, expansive, wide open, wide spread, flabelliform, overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical, pot bellied, swag bellied, edematous, oedematous, obese, puffy, pursy, blowzy, bigswoln, distended, patulous, bulbous, full blown, full grown, full formed, big, abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate, tumefacient, tumefying.

Evolution

N evolution, unfolding, development, evolvement, unfoldment, eversion, evolving, evolved.

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