development
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: arts
biology
board-games
business
chess
entertainment
games
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
music
natural-sciences
photography
real-estate
sciences
Etymology: From French développement, from Old French desvelopemens (“unrolling”). By surface analysis, develop + -ment. First attested in 1756.
Inflected forms:
form: developments
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: developement
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The process of developing; growth, directed change.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The development of this story has been slow.
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.
gloss: The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The organism has reached a crucial stage in its development.
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.
gloss: Something which has developed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Our news team brings you the latest developments.
up-to-date with new developments in IT
gloss: A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The building of such a project.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Our development department has produced three new adhesives this year.
gloss: The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: White's development is good, but black's has been hampered by the pawn on e5.
gloss: The process by in which previous material is transformed and restated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The second section of a piece of music in sonata form, in which the original theme is revisited in altered and varying form.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The expression of a function in the form of a series.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The processing of photographic film so as to bring out the images latent in it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I sent the film to a specialist lab for development.
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:
lang: Danish
word: udbygning
lang: Danish
word: udvidelse
lang: Finnish
word: rakentaminen
lang: Hebrew
word: פיתוח
roman: pituakh
lang: Indonesian
word: pembangunan
lang: Spanish
word: urbanización
lang: Spanish
word: fraccionamiento
lang: Spanish
word: edificación
lang: Swedish
word: utbyggnad