Dictionary » D » Development

Development

Development

1. The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an image upon a photographic plate; gradual advancement or growth through a series of progressive changes; also, the result of developing, or a developed state. A new development of imagination, taste, and poetry. (Channing)

2. (Science: biology) The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization.

3. (Science: mathematics) The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another of equivalent value or meaning. The equivalent expression into which another has been developed.

4. The elaboration of a theme or subject; the unfolding of a musical idea; the evolution of a whole piece or movement from a leading theme or motive.

(Science: biology) development theory, the doctrine that animals and plants possess the power of passing by slow and successive stages from a lower to a higher state of organization, and that all the higher forms of life now in existence were thus developed by uniform laws from lower 596

forms, and are not the result of special creative acts. See the note under darwinian.

Synonym: Unfolding, disclosure, unraveling, evolution, elaboration, growth.

Origin: cf. F. Developpement

alternative forms: developement. (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.Processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible; the development and printing of his pictures took only two hours.The growing stage of organisms from embryo to adult.


Please contribute to this project, if you have more information about this term feel free to edit this page



Results from our forum


New conception of evolution ?

isn't a sketch of the new theory of evolution ? and a sketch of new theory of the structure and the development of the society ?

See entire post
by InsertFn
Mon Jun 01, 2009 12:15 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: New perspectives in theory of evolution
Replies: 4
Views: 409

Why are the offsprings of some animals large but some small?

It is beneficial to certain animals to have different portions of the development of their offspring inside or outside of their body, it depends on many factors including whether it is a predator or prey, its environmental conditions etc. (sorry cant think ...

See entire post
by futurezoologist
Sun May 31, 2009 11:15 am
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: Why are the offsprings of some animals large but some small?
Replies: 2
Views: 94

Re: New perspectives in theory of evolution

... years takes evolution to reach biological phase, but only 3 to reach first primitive organisms, and only couple hundred millions to reach high development and later intelligent animals. It is rather sure that it is not only perspective delusion arising becouse of passing of time (like optical ...

See entire post
by InsertFn
Mon May 18, 2009 8:37 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: New perspectives in theory of evolution
Replies: 4
Views: 409

Any SOLID arguments against evolution?

... Most of the questions you presented have nothing to do with biology. The big bang, for example, is a matter of astrophysics, just as the development of rock strata is a concern for geologists. I'm not saying that I wouldn't mind discussing those topics with you; I'm just skeptical if ...

See entire post
by alextemplet
Sun May 10, 2009 11:28 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Any SOLID arguments against evolution?
Replies: 100
Views: 1611
View all matching forum results

This page was last modified 21:16, 3 October 2005. This page has been accessed 7,023 times. 
What links here | Related changes | Permanent link