<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>the act or process of developing; growth; progress: child development; economic development.</li><li>a significant consequence or event: recent developments in the field of science.</li><li>a developed or advanced state or form: Drama reached its highest development in the plays of Shakespeare.</li><li>Music. the part of a movement or composition in which a theme or themes are developed, or unfolded and elaborated, by various technical means, so as to reveal their inherent possibilities.</li><li>a large group of private houses or of apartment houses, often of similar design, constructed as a unified community, especially by a real-estate developer or government organization.</li><li>Chess. the act or process of developing chess pieces.</li><li>Mining. the work of digging openings, as tunnels, raises, and winzes, to give access to new workings, and of erecting necessary structures.</li></ul>