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the gradual beginning or coming forth
figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece
(noun) growing, ontogenesis, ontogeny, maturation, development
(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
a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
the increase in unemployment; the growth of population