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Etymology

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FromFrenchdéveloppement, fromOld Frenchdesvelopemens(“unrolling”). Bysurface analysis,develop +‎-ment. First attested in 1756.

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Noun

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development (countable anduncountable,pluraldevelopments)

  1. (uncountable) The process ofdeveloping;growth,directedchange.
    Synonyms:conversion,metamorphosis,transformation;see alsoThesaurus:conversion
    Thedevelopment of this story has been slow.
    • 2013 July 19,Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, inThe Guardian Weekly, volume189, number 6, page34:
      Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy braindevelopment in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits.  ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
  2. (uncountable, biology) The process by which a maturemulticellularorganism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.
    The organism has reached a crucial stage in itsdevelopment.
    • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster,The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.:Field Museum of Natural History,→ISBN, page 5:
      Of more significance in the nature of branchdevelopment; in the Jubulaceae, as in the Porellaceae, branches are acroscopic and normally replace a ventral leaf lobe.
  3. (countable) Something which hasdeveloped.
    Our news team brings you the latestdevelopments.
  4. (real estate, countable) A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings.
  5. (real estate, uncountable) The building of such a project.
  6. (uncountable) The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf.research).
    Ourdevelopment department has produced three new adhesives this year.
  7. (chess, uncountable) The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.
    White'sdevelopment is good, but black's has been hampered by the pawn on e5.
  8. (music) The process by in which previous material is transformed and restated.
  10. (music) The second section of a piece of music insonata form, in which the original theme is revisited in altered and varying form.
  11. (mathematics) The expression of afunction in the form of aseries.
  12. (photography) The processing of photographic film so as to bring out the images latent in it.
    I sent the film to a specialist lab fordevelopment.

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Translations

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process of developing
something which has developed
real estate development
application of new ideas to practical problems (compare research)
active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it
music: transformation and restatement of previous material
music: second section of sonata form
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