different between causation vs development

English

Etymology

From cause +? -ation

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

causation (countable and uncountable, plural causations)

1. The act of causing.
2. The act or agency by which an effect is produced.
   • 1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences

     the kind of causation by which vision is produced

3. Cause and effect; causality.

Synonyms

• causality
• ætiology, aetiology, etiology

Derived terms

• causational

Translations

Further reading

• causation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• causation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Alternative forms

• developement (obsolete)

Etymology

First use 1756, analyzable as develop +? -ment, from French développement, from Old French desvelopemens (“unrolling”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??v?l?pm?nt/

Noun

development (countable and uncountable, plural developments)

1. (uncountable) The process of developing; growth, directed change.

2. (uncountable, biology) The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.

3. (countable) Something which has developed.

4. (real estate, countable) A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings.
5. (real estate, uncountable) The building of such a project.
6. (uncountable) The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).

7. (chess, uncountable) The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.

8. (music) The process by in which previous material is transformed and restated.
10. (music) The second section of a piece of music in sonata form, in which the original theme is revisited in altered and varying form.
11. (mathematics) The expression of a function in the form of a series.

Derived terms

• arrested development
• career development
• community development
• development aid

Translations

Further reading

• "development" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 103.