development
nounverified·updated May 9, 2026
The process of growing, advancing, or elaborate.
Framework senses
- §1
- The process of growing, advancing, or elaborate.
- §1
- The process of growing, advancing, or elaborate.
- §1
- act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining
- §2
- the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful
- §3
- (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated
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- a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation
- §5
- a district that has been developed to serve some purpose
- §6
- processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible
- §7
- a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage, especially a more advanced or mature stage
- §8
- (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically
- §9
- a state in which things are improving