Developement

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Development \De*vel"op*ment\, n. [Cf. F. d['e]veloppement.]
     [Written also {developement}.]
     1. The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown;
        a gradual unfolding process by which anything is
        developed, as a plan or method, or an image upon a
        photographic plate; gradual advancement or growth through


        a series of progressive changes; also, the result of
        developing, or a developed state.
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              A new development of imagination, taste, and poetry.
                                                    --Channing.
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     2. (Biol.) 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.
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     3. (Math.)
        (a) The act or process of changing or expanding an
            expression into another of equivalent value or
            meaning.
        (b) The equivalent expression into which another has been
            developed.
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     4. (Mus.) The elaboration of a theme or subject; the
        unfolding of a musical idea; the evolution of a whole
        piece or movement from a leading theme or motive.
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     5. A tract of land on which a number of buildings have been
        constructed; -- especially used for tract on which from
        two to hundreds of houses have been constructed by a
        commercial developer[4] for sale to individuals.
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     {Development theory} (Biol.), the doctrine that animals and
        plants possess the power of passing by slow and successive
        stages from a lower to a higher state of organization, and
        that all the higher forms of life now in existence were
        thus developed by uniform laws from lower forms, and are
        not the result of special creative acts. See the Note
        under {Darwinian}.
  
     Syn: Unfolding; disclosure; unraveling; evolution;
          elaboration; growth.
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