development
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈvɛləpmənt/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈdɛv(ə)lɵpməɳʈ/
Forms: form: developments
form: developement
Etymology: From French développement, from Old French desvelopemens (“unrolling”). By surface analysis, develop + -ment. First attested in 1756.
Senses: examples: text: The development of this story has been slow.
text: Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development 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.
ref: 2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34:
glosses: The process of developing; growth, directed change.
examples: text: The organism has reached a crucial stage in its development.
text: Of more significance in the nature of branch development; in the Jubulaceae, as in the Porellaceae, branches are acroscopic and normally replace a ventral leaf lobe.
ref: 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:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.
examples: text: Our news team brings you the latest developments.
glosses: Something which has developed.
topics: business
real-estate
glosses: A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings.
topics: business
real-estate
glosses: The building of such a project.
examples: text: Our development department has produced three new adhesives this year.
glosses: The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).
examples: text: White's development is good, but black's has been hampered by the pawn on e5.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The process by in which previous material is transformed and restated.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The second section of a piece of music in sonata form, in which the original theme is revisited in altered and varying form.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The expression of a function in the form of a series.
examples: text: I sent the film to a specialist lab for development.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: The processing of photographic film so as to bring out the images latent in it.
Derived terms: 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
maldevelopment
megadevelopment
misdevelopment
neurodevelopment
nondevelopment
overdevelopment
personal development
predevelopment
psychosexual development
redevelopment
resume-driven development
sociodevelopment
subdevelopment
superdevelopment
sustainable development
test-driven development
topside development
underdevelopment
undevelopment
web development
zone of proximal development