Synonyms:
development
Meaning: act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining; "he congratulated them on their development of a plan to meet the emergency"; "they funded research and development"
Synonyms:
development, evolution
Meaning: a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage); "the development of his ideas took many years"; "the evolution of Greek civilization"; "the slow development of her skill as a writer"
Synonyms:
growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
Meaning: (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; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children"
Synonyms:
development
Meaning: a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation; "recent developments in Iraq"; "what a revolting development!"
Synonyms:
exploitation, development
Meaning: 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"
Synonyms:
development
Meaning: a district that has been developed to serve some purpose; "such land is practical for small park developments"
Synonyms:
development
Meaning: 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"
Usage examples
THE DEVELOPMENT OF RESIDUAL HEARING
He had many years of growth and development before him.
Give some exercises for development of these conditions.
Development, as in strict cyclic forms, there is not a little.
But surely the cross is the lower development and the sphere the higher.
Discipline or development of power of continuous attention is its fruit.
He also wisely marks crescendos in the bass at the first thematic development.
There is an activity in process; one is taken up with the development of a theme.
Colonel von Gramm, of the 24th Posen Infantry, had suffered severely during this new development.
If this can be done, the economic outlook is for a great development of wealth and popular welfare.