different between increasing vs development

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?k?i?s??/
• Hyphenation: in?creas?ing
• Rhymes: -i?s??

Etymology 1

From increase +? -ing.

Adjective

increasing (not comparable)

1. on the increase.

   steadily increasing demand

Antonyms

• decreasing

Hyponyms

• ever-increasing

Translations

Verb

increasing

1. present participle of increase

Etymology 2

From Middle English encresing, equivalent to increase +? -ing.

Noun

increasing (plural increasings)

1. (knitting) An increase.
   • 1864, The Ladies' Companion and Monthly Magazine (page 277)

     Now begin the increasings for the chest by making 2 stitches in the fourth stitch; repeat this, increasing in every fourth row, but 1 stitch further each time, so as to form a slanting line, the same as a dress-pleat.

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.