DEVELOPMENT

Act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining

Example: "He congratulated them on their development of a plan to meet the emergency"

A process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)

Example: "The development of his ideas took many years"

(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

Example: "He proposed an indicator of osseous development in children"

A recent event that has some relevance for the present situation

Example: "Recent developments in iraq"

The act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful

Example: "The development of alaskan resources"

A district that has been developed to serve some purpose

Example: "Such land is practical for small park developments"

A state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess)

Example: "After he saw the latest development he changed his mind and became a supporter"

Processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible

Example: "The development and printing of his pictures took only two hours"

(music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated