development

Meaning

Noun

• The process of developing; growth, directed change.
• The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.
• Something which has developed.
• A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings.
• The building of such a project.
• The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).
• The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.
• The process by in which previous material is transformed and restated.
• The second section of a piece of music in sonata form, in which the original theme is revisited in altered and varying form.
• The expression of a function in the form of a series.

Origin

• First use 1756, analyzable as develop + -ment, from French développement, from Old French desvelopemens ("unrolling").