development

• processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible
• 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 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
• (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated
• The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown
• The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization
• The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another of equivalent value or meaning
• The equivalent expression into which another has been developed
• The elaboration of a theme or subject

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