A tract of land on which a number of buildings have been constructed; -- especially used for tract on which from two to hundreds of houses have been constructed by a commercial developer{4} for sale to individuals.

The preparation of a mining property so that an ore body can be analyzed and its tonnage and quality estimated. Development is an intermediate stage between exploration and mining.

A planned construction project, rather than simply the building of unrelated buildings.

Under the National Flood Insurance Program, any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate, including but not limited to buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation, or drilling operations or storage of equipment or materials.

Production cycle that begins with acquisition and ends with pre-production, during which a story's elements, including script, director, and cast are finalized in preparation for preproduction.

The lengthy and often painful process in which a screenplay is re-written time and time again to satisfy all those involved with the project, namely studio executives, directors, and cast members. To quote Howard Rodman: "Development is the process of taking the screenplay only you could have written, and turning it into something anyone could have written.

In this case, it is the determination of the best techniques for applying a new device or process to the production of goods or services.

the process during which a story or idea is written and formed into a script or a completed script is rewritten further to create a script ready to be produced.

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.

The process of growth whereby a child acquires and masters skills in the areas of motor, cognitive, language, social-emotional and adaptive functioning.

1) Learning or other types of activities that prepare a person for additional job responsibilities and/or enable him to gain knowledge or skills. 2) The creation of training materials or courses, as in content development or e-learning development.

Development prepares volunteers for future roles or responsibilities within an organisation and satisfies individual needs for personal growth.

Progressive change, as in structure or metabolism; in most kinds of organisms, development continues throughout the life of the organism.

The change in loss estimates between reports.

Cell or organ changes toward greater degrees of complexity.

Changes that take place due to growth and experience

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.

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.

(n) An alternative description of the surfaces of a 3-D object as a 2-D pattern. The creation of a development is often thought of as an unfolding of the surfaces of an object. A developable surface, then, can be unfolded or unrolled onto a plane without distortion. Single-curved surfaces, such as cylinders and cones, are also developable.

The elaboration of an idea through organized discussion filled with examples, details, and other information.

Training people to acquire new horizons, technologies, or viewpoints. It enables leaders to guide their organizations onto new expectations by being proactive rather than reactive. It enables workers to create better products, faster services, and more competitive organizations. It is learning for growth of the individual, but not related to a specific present or future job. development phase The third of the Instructional System Design phases. The purpose of this phase is to develop and validate the instructional material (courseware).

A newly built residence or an older property which has been refurbished and modernised.

well A well drilled in an already discovered oil or gas field.

refers to the phase in which an oil or gas field is brought into production, usually by drilling and completing production wells, and the wells, in most cases, are connected to the petroleum gathering system.

To develop a piece is to move it from its starting square to a more effective position. In the OPENING both players strive for rapid DEVELOPMENT.

The process of bringing your pieces into play in the opening to get ready for the middlegame.

The process of moving pieces from their original squares to positions where they can better aid the player's plans. Category: Glossary 2 visitor(s) thought this was helpful. Do you

The movement of the pieces from their original positions to (hopefully) good positions.

The progressive production of the phenotypic characteristics of a multicellular organism, beginning with the fertilization of an egg. diaphragm[Gk. diaphrassein, to barricade] A sheet of muscle that forms the bottom wall of the thoracic cavity in mammals; active in ventilating the lungs.

Extension of the sword arm as part of a lunge.

The process by which a multicellular organism is produced from a single cell.

The action of the simple thrust and lunge, executed as one movement.

The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another of equivalent value or meaning.

The sum of all the changes that expand upon an existing structure or body.

act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining; "he congratulated them on their development of a plan to meet the emergency"; "they funded research and development"

concerns the manner in which a paragraph of an essay expands on its topic. Dialect

a human enhancement process not limited to the accumulation of material wealth, power or knowledge

Development of conventional resist materials is based on image-wise dissolution discrimination. To understand and optimize photoresist development it is necessary to characterize its exposure-dependent dissolution properties.

means the making of a Derivative of the original Licensed Material, and ' Development Rights' shall be similarly construed

The ways in which countries gain more wealth. It is usually measured in terms of material wealth.

a review of the design record and any required specifications

the placement of a created design on the internet through the use of coding

The act of creating a web site as specified in the design.

A public housing project under an ACC.

Project relates to development and alumni support activities of the University.

one of several hydroelectric plants collectively licensed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as a Project. (Example: The Coosa River Project consists of 5 developments - Weiss, Henry, Logan Martin, Lay, and Bouldin)

Development activity primarily involves the creation of new material that is specifically intended to accomplish a purpose or perform a service that is specified beforehand. The created material may be applied repeatedly to some ongoing situation for an indefinite interval. Once a software application has entered operational use defined elsewhere in this document, then further development activities that maintain that operational software are no longer an academic use.

The creation of fish habitat and the enhancement or other improvement (such as flow regulation, nutrient modification, provision of access to spawning and rearing areas, etc.) applied to any type of fish habitat to provide better conditions for production and maintenance of the fisheries resource.

In economic terms, the creation of industries in an area which allow a higher standard of living for the human inhabitants.