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Development   /dɪvˈɛləpmənt/   Listen
noun
Development  n.  (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."
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.
5.
A tract of land on which a number of buildings have been constructed; especially used for tract on which from two to hundreds of houses have been constructed by a commercial developer (4) for sale to individuals.
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.
Synonyms: Unfolding; disclosure; unraveling; evolution; elaboration; growth.





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"Development" Quotes from Famous Books



... plunge into wild seas and venture themselves among even wilder men. With the Greeks the motive was generally political, and a safe home was sought, where social and civil life might have free scope for quiet development. ...
— History of Phoenicia • George Rawlinson
... you would think so!" cried the little philanthropist enthusiastically. "Of course, bartering as you do with aboriginal races, their development and evolution is a matter of the deepest importance to you. If a man came down to barter with you who had a rudimentary tail and couldn't bend his thumb—well, it wouldn't be pleasant, you know. Our idea is to elevate them in the scale of humanity ...
— The Firm of Girdlestone • Arthur Conan Doyle
... seemed to think less; it seemed, indeed, rather to reconcile him to that of his mother, by the grief it spared her; and it confirmed Ethel's notion, that Mr. Ward, a busy and dull man, paid no great attention to his children between the plaything period and that of full development. The mother was the home; and Averil, though Leonard showed both love for and pride in her, had hitherto been a poor substitute, while as to Henry, there was something in each mention of him which gave Ethel an undefined dread of the future of the young ...
— The Trial - or, More Links of the Daisy Chain • Charlotte M. Yonge
... called 'Books that Have Influenced Me.' A number of authors, politicians, preachers, doctors, and rich men profess to give an account of the youthful reading which has been most powerful in the development of their manly minds and characters. To judge from what they have written here you would suppose that these men were as mature and discriminating at sixteen as they are at sixty. They tell of great books, serious books, famous books. But they say little or nothing of the small, amusing ...
— Days Off - And Other Digressions • Henry Van Dyke
... a calculation that had not gone astray from that end to which she had designed it. It was as if some monstrous and ironical power had been beneath and about her all her life long, using those thoughts and actions that she had intended in one way to the development of another. ...
— Come Rack! Come Rope! • Robert Hugh Benson


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