English Explanatory Dictionary

development

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The process of developing; growth, directed change.
  2. The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.
  3. Something which has developed.
  4. A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings.
  5. The building of such a project.
  6. The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).
  7. The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.
  8. The process by in which previous material is transformed and restated.
  9. The second section of a piece of music in sonata form, in which the original theme is revisited in altered and varying form.
  10. The expression of a function in the form of a series.
  11. The processing of photographic film so as to bring out the images latent in it.

Pronunciation

/dɪˈvɛl.əp.mənt/ en-us-development.ogg /ɖeʋᵊ.ləp.menʈ/ /ɖɪ.ʋɛː.ləp.menʈ/

Word forms

development developments developement

Etymology

From French développement, from Old French desvelopemens (“unrolling”). By surface analysis, develop + -ment. First attested in 1756.

Synonyms

conversion metamorphosis transformation development transfiguration transfigurement transmogrification transmutation sea change

Derived words

antidevelopment arrested development business development career development cluster development codevelopment community development counterdevelopment development aid developmental developmentary developmentation development hell development limbo development mule devlog DevOps DevSecOps disorder of sex development dualistic development ecodevelopment ethnodevelopment human development hyperdevelopment hypodevelopment look development maldevelopment megadevelopment misdevelopment neurodevelopment nondevelopment overdevelopment personal development predevelopment psychosexual development redevelopment research and development resume-driven development sociodevelopment subdevelopment superdevelopment sustainable development test-driven development topside development underdevelopment undevelopment web development zone of proximal development

Translations

Danish: udbygning Danish: udvidelse Finnish: rakentaminen Hebrew: פיתוח Indonesian: pembangunan Spanish: urbanización Spanish: fraccionamiento Spanish: edificación Swedish: utbyggnad
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