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development [n]
 
1)act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining; "he congratulated them on their development of a plan to meet the emergency"; "they funded research and development"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: improvement  develop  develop  advancement  broadening  elaboration  product_development 
 
2)a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage); "the development of his ideas took many years"; "the evolution of Greek civilization"; "the slow development of her skill as a writer"
    Synonyms :evolution 
    See Also: process  evolve  degeneration  develop  assibilation  deepening  growth  flowering 
 
3)a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation; "recent developments in Iraq"; "what a revolting development!"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: alteration  break  turn  phenomenon  complication 
 
4)the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful; "the development of Alaskan resources"; "the exploitation of copper deposits"
    Synonyms :exploitation 
    See Also: employment  build_up  exploit  exploit  exploit  land_development  water_development  overexploitation  capitalisation  commercialisation  electrification  unitisation 
 
5)a district that has been developed to serve some purpose; "such land is practical for small park developments"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: district  build_up  housing_development  housing_estate 
 
6)a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess); "after he saw the latest development he changed his mind and became a supporter"; "in chess your should take care of your development before moving your queen"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: improvement  chess  develop  develop  underdevelopment 
 
7)(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; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children"
    Synonyms :growing growth maturation ontogenesis ontogeny 
    See Also: biological_process  biological_science  develop  acquire  nondevelopment  age  grow  grow  grow  culture  amelogenesis  angiogenesis  apposition  auxesis  anthesis  caenogenesis  cohesion  cytogenesis  foliation  fructification  gametogenesis  gastrulation  germination  infructescence  intussusception  juvenescence  life_cycle  masculinisation  morphogenesis  myelinisation  neurogenesis  palingenesis  proliferation  psychomotor_development  psychosexual_development  rooting  suppression  dentition  teratogenesis  vegetation  isometry 
 
8)processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible; "the development and printing of his pictures took only two hours"
    Synonyms :developing 
    See Also: processing  develop  underdevelopment 
 

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

The process of analysis, design, coding and testing software.



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