development

(dĕ-vel′ŏp-mĕnt )

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[Fr. développer, to unwrap]

1. Growth to full size or maturity, as of a child to an adult.
SEE: growth
2. Passage through a series of stages of improvement, education, or learning.
developmental, adj.

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