development · Contextualize

Etymology

From French développement, from Old French desvelopemens (“unrolling”). By surface analysis, develop + -ment. First attested in 1756.

derived from desvelopemens
derived from développement

Definitions

1
The process of developing
The process of developing; growth, directed change.
- The development of this story has been slow.
2
The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced…
The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.
- The organism has reached a crucial stage in its development.
- Of more significance in the nature of branch development; in the Jubulaceae, as in the Porellaceae, branches are acroscopic and normally replace a ventral leaf lobe.
3
Something which has developed.
- Our news team brings you the latest developments.
- up-to-date with new developments in IT
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1. A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings.
2. The building of such a project.
3. 6
  The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).
  - Our development department has produced three new adhesives this year.
4. 7
  The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.
  - White's development is good, but black's has been hampered by the pawn on e5.
5. The process by in which previous material is transformed and restated.
6. The second section of a piece of music in sonata form, in which the original theme is…
  The second section of a piece of music in sonata form, in which the original theme is revisited in altered and varying form.
7. The expression of a function in the form of a series.
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  The processing of photographic film so as to bring out the images latent in it.
  - I sent the film to a specialist lab for development.

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at development. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at development. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at development

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.