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development, evolution | a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage) | |
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development | a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation | |
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development | [in chess] a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess) | |
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development, exploitation | the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful | |
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development | act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining | |
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development | [in music] the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated | |
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growth, development, growing, maturation, ontogeny, ontogenesis | [in 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 | |
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development, developing | processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible | |
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development | a district that has been developed to serve some purpose |