English Online Dictionary. What means development? What does development mean?
English
Alternative forms
- developement (obsolete)
Etymology
From French développement, from Old French desvelopemens (“unrolling”). By surface analysis, develop + -ment. First attested in 1756.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɪˈvɛləpmənt/
- (India) IPA(key): /ˈdɛʋ(ə)ləpmənt/, /dɛˈʋɛləpmənt/
Noun
development (countable and uncountable, plural developments)
- (uncountable) The process of developing; growth, directed change.
- (uncountable, biology) The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.
- (countable) Something which has developed.
- (real estate, countable) A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings.
- (real estate, uncountable) The building of such a project.
- (uncountable) The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).
- (chess, uncountable) The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.
- (music) The process by in which previous material is transformed and restated.
- (music) The second section of a piece of music in sonata form, in which the original theme is revisited in altered and varying form.
- (mathematics) The expression of a function in the form of a series.
- (photography) The processing of photographic film so as to bring out the images latent in it.
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Further reading
- "development" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 103.