Dictionary Definition
development
Noun
1 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"
2 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" [syn: evolution] [ant: degeneration]
3 a recent event that has some relevance for the
present situation; "recent developments in Iraq"; "what a revolting
development!"
4 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" [syn:
exploitation]
5 a district that has been developed to serve
some purpose; "such land is practical for small park
developments"
6 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"
7 (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" [syn: growth,
growing, maturation, ontogeny, ontogenesis] [ant: nondevelopment]
8 processing a photosensitive material in order
to make an image visible; "the development and printing of his
pictures took only two hours" [syn: developing]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /dəˈvɛləpmənt/
Noun
- The process of developing; growth
- The development of this story has been slow.
- The organism has reached a crucial stage in its development.
- The development of this story has been slow.
- Something which has developed
- Our news team brings you the latest developments.
- A real estate development
- The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf.
research)
- Our development department has produced three new adhesives this year.
- In the context of "chess|uncountable": The active placement of
the pieces, or the process of achieving it
- White's development is good, but black's has been hampered by the pawn on e5.''
Translations
process of developing
- Arabic:
- Czech: vývoj
- Danish: udvikling
- Dutch: ontwikkeling
- Finnish: kehitys, kehittyminen
- German: Entwicklung
- Hebrew:
- Italian: potenziamento
- Kurdish:
- Portuguese: desenvolvimento
- Russian: развитие (razvítije)
- Slovene: razvoj
- Swedish: utveckling
something which has developed
- Danish: udvikling
- Finnish: kehitys
- Hebrew:
- German: Entwicklung
- Italian: potenziamento
- Kurdish: ,
- Russian: достижение (dostižénije) , разработка (razrabótka)
- Scottish Gaelic: adhrtas
- Swedish: utveckling
application of new ideas to practical problems
(cf. research)
- Czech: vývoj
- Danish: udvikling
- Hebrew:
- Scottish Gaelic: adhartas
- Swedish: utveckling
active placement of the pieces, or the process
of achieving it
- Danish: udvikling
Extensive Definition
Development may refer to:
World
Land use
- Real estate development
- Overdevelopment
- Urban development or urban planning
- Sustainable development
Science and technology
- Developmental biology
- Development (differential geometry), the process of rolling one surface over another
- Development (journal), an academic journal in developmental biology
- Development (topology), a countable collection of open coverings
- Artificial development, an area of computer science and engineering
- Energy development
- Renewable energy development
- Software development
- Development branch in software development
- Technology development
- Differential technological development, a proposed strategy for influencing the order in which developments are made
Social science
- Development studies
- Development geography
- Child development
- Community development
- Cultural development or sociocultural evolution
- Economic development, the economic aspect of social change
- Human development
- Social development, processes of change in societies
- Sustainable development
International and regional
- Development aid, the provision of assistance to developing countries
- Economic development
- International development
- Regional development
Business and professional
- Business development, a process of growing a business
- Career development
- Corporate development, a position in a business
- Employee development
- Leadership development
- New product development
- Organization development
- Personal development or self-help
- Professional development
Modern culture
- Development (album), a nu-metal album by musical group Nonpoint
- Arrested Development (group), a hip hop group in the early 1990s
- Arrested Development (TV series), a television show based upon a company and a family
- Musical development, a compositional process
- Photographic development or photographic processing
- Script development, in filmmaking
development in Arabic: تطوّر
development in Czech: Vývoj
development in Danish: Udvikling
(flertydig)
development in German: Entwicklung
development in Basque: Garapena
development in French: Développement
development in Korean: 개발
development in Indonesian: Perkembangan
development in Dutch: Ontwikkelen
development in Japanese: 開発
development in Norwegian: Utvikling
development in Portuguese: Desenvolvimento
development in Romanian: Dezvoltare
(dezambiguizare)
development in Simple English: Development
development in Slovak: Vývoj
development in Swedish: Utveckling
development in Chinese: 发展
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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