Textual thesaurus for "development"

(noun) exploitation

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

(noun) developing

processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible

the development and printing of his pictures took only two hours

(noun) evolution

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

(noun) growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny, maturation

(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