development


development - noun

  • act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining
  • a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)
  • (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
  • a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation
  • the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful
  • a district that has been developed to serve some purpose
  • a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess)
  • processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible
  • (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated

    • development - thesaurus

    developing   evolution   exploitation   growing   growth   maturation   ontogenesis   ontogeny  


    View spelling list The suffix -ment and learn about the word development in the Spellzone English spelling course, Unit 33. Word endings: -ant, -ent, -ance, -ence.

    Scrabble score for development

    d is 2 e is 1 v is 4 e is 1 l is 1 o is 1 p is 3 m is 3 e is 1 n is 1 t is 1
    Scrabble score = 19

    Please note that scrabble only allows seven tiles to be placed at once.

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