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development
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)
- (uncountable) The process of developing; growth, directed change.
- (uncountable, biology) The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.
- (countable) Something which has developed.
- (real estate, countable) A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings.
- (real estate, uncountable) The building of such a project.
- (uncountable) The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).
- (chess, uncountable) The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.
- (music) The process by in which previous material is transformed and restated.
- (music) The second section of a piece of music in sonata form, in which the original theme is revisited in altered and varying form.
- (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.
development From the web:
- what development contributed to the growth of agriculture
- what developments helped lead to the revolution
aftermath
English
Etymology
From after- +? math (“a mowing”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?æf.t?.?mæ?/
- (UK) IPA(key): /???f.t?.?m???/, /?æf.t?.?mæ?/
Noun
aftermath (plural aftermaths)
- (obsolete, agriculture) A second mowing; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season.
- 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson: Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes:
- They were cutting aftermath on all sides, which gave the neighbourhood, this gusty autumn morning, an untimely smell of hay.
- 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson: Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes:
- That which happens after, that which follows, usually of strongly negative connotation in most contexts, implying a preceding catastrophe.
- In contrast to most projections of the aftermath of nuclear war, in this there is no rioting or looting.
Related terms
- beforemath
Translations
Anagrams
- hamfatter
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