How to sign: 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";
Similiar / Same: evolution
Categories: process
Within this category: assibilation, deepening, growth, unfolding
How to sign: (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";
Similiar / Same: growth, growing, ontogeny, ontogenesis, maturation
Categories: biological process, organic process
Within this category: amelogenesis, angiogenesis, apposition, auxesis, blossoming, cenogenesis, cohesion, culture, cytogenesis, foliation, fructification, gametogenesis, germination, infructescence, intussusception, juvenescence, life cycle, masculinization, morphogenesis, myelinization, neurogenesis, palingenesis, proliferation, psychomotor development, psychosexual development, rooting, suppression, teething, teratogenesis, vegetation