Act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining.

Roget 154: effect, consequence; aftergrowth^†, aftercome^†; derivative, derivation; result; resultant, resultance^†; upshot, issue, denouement; end etc. 67; development, outgrowth, fruit, crop, harvest, product, bud.    production, produce, work, handiwork, fabric, performance; creature, creation; offspring, offshoot; firstfruits^†, firstlings; heredity, telegony^†; premices premises^†.    ... show more

Dutch: ontwikkeling
Polish: rozwijanie, rozszerzanie

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 slow development of her skill as a writer.

synonym: evolution.

Roget 313: evolution, counter-rotation, unfolding, development; evolvement; unfoldment; eversion etc. (inversion) 218.   

Roget 161: production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture; building, architecture, erection, edification; coinage; diaster^†; organization; nisus formativus [Lat.]; putting together etc. v.; establishment; workmanship, performance; achievement etc. (completion) 729.    flowering, fructification; inflorescence.    bringing forth etc. v.; parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics; geniture^†; gestation etc. (maturation) 673; assimilation; evolution, development, growth; entelechy [Phil.]; fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy [Biol.], genesis, generation, epigenesis^†, procreation, progeneration^†, propagation; fecundation, impregnation; albumen etc. 357.    spontaneous generation; archegenesis^†, archebiosis^†; biogenesis, abiogenesis^†, digenesis^†, dysmerogenesis^†, eumerogenesis^†, heterogenesis^†, oogenesis, merogenesis^†, metogenesis^†, monogenesis^†, parthenogenesis, homogenesis^†, xenogenesis1^†; authorship, publication; works, opus, oeuvre.    biogeny^†, dissogeny^†, xenogeny^†; tocogony^†, vacuolization.    edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit.    ... show more

Dutch: loop, ontwikkelingsgang, verloop
Polish: ewolucja, progres, progresja, rozwój

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.

synonyms: growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny.

Roget 194: expansion; increase of size etc. 35; enlargement, extension, augmentation; amplification, ampliation^†; aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction; turgescence^†, turgidness, turgidity; dispansion^†; obesity etc. (size) 192; hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus [Med.]; dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension; puffing, puffiness; inflation; pandiculation^†.    dilatability, expansibility.    germination, growth, upgrowth^†; accretion etc. 35; budding, gemmation^†.    overgrowth, overdistension^†; hypertrophy, tympany^†.    bulb etc. (convexity) 250; plumper; superiority of size.    [expansion of the universe] big bang; Hubble constant.    ... show more

Roget 35: increase, augmentation, enlargement, extension; dilatation etc. (expansion) 194; increment, accretion; accession etc. 37; development, growth; aggrandizement, aggravation; rise; ascent etc. 305; exaggeration exacerbation; spread etc. (dispersion) 73; flood tide; gain, produce, product, profit.    ... show more

Dutch: ontogenie, ontwikkeling, ontwikkelingsfysiologie, ontogenese, groei, rijping, wasdom
Polish: rozwój osobniczy, ontogeneza

A recent event that has some relevance for the present situation.

Dutch: spiraal

The act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful:
— The development of Alaskan resources.

synonym: exploitation.

Dutch: exploitatie

A district that has been developed to serve some purpose.

A state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess).

Processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible:
— The development and printing of his pictures took only two hours.

synonym: developing.

Roget 144: conversion, reduction, transmutation, resolution, assimilation; evolution, sea change; change of state; assumption; naturalization; transportation; development [Biol.], developing.    [photography] [conversion of currency] conversion of currency, exchange of currency; exchange rate; bureau de change.    chemistry, alchemy; progress, growth, lapse, flux.    passage; transit, transition; transmigration, shifting etc. v.; phase; conjugation; convertibility.    crucible, alembic, caldron, retort.    convert, pervert, renegade, apostate.    ... show more

Dutch: ontwikkeling

music The section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated.