Development
Appearance
Development has meaning in several contexts:
Engineering
[change | change source]- Land improvement and/or construction involving land, buildings or infrastructure (see project, public housing and real estate development); excessive development of this kind may lead to overdevelopment
- Urban development is the process of developing populated settlements (see urban planning and urban renewal)
- New product development
- Software development (disambiguation)
- The development branch of a piece of software
- Sustainable development seeks a holistic notion of development encompassing environmental and social as well as economic aspects
- Technology development, improving or researching changes in technology (e.g. involving biotechnology, nanotechnology, or software)
Natural science
[change | change source]- Biological development or morphogenesis of embryos in the context of developmental biology
- Development (journal) published twice monthly by the Company of Biologists.
- Child development, in the context of physical development, or post-natal human development (pediatrics, etc.).
Social science and politics
[change | change source]Psychology
[change | change source]- Developmental psychology is the study of human psychological development.
- Human development
Social development
[change | change source]- Social development, processes of change in societies
- Economic development, the economic aspect of social change
- Sociocultural evolution or cultural development
- Sustainable development
- Development studies, the multidisciplinary social scientific study of development
International and regional development
[change | change source]- International development, the process of economic and social development in developing countries
- Development aid, the provision of aid and other forms of assistance to communities or countries
- Development aid agencies
- Development charities
- Regional development, provision of aid and assistance to the less economically developed regions
Personal and professional improvement
[change | change source]- Career development
- Leadership development
- Personal development, the development of the self (see also self-help)
- Professional development
Business
[change | change source]- Business development, a process of growing a business
- Corporate development, a position in a business
- Employee development (see also human resources)
- New product development (above)
- Organization development (see also training and development)
Arts and popular culture
[change | change source]- Arrested Development (TV series), a television show based upon a company and a family
- Arrested Development (hip hop group), a hip hop group popular in the early 1990s.
- Development (album), a nu-metal album by musical group Nonpoint
- Musical development, the transformation and restatement of initial material, often contrasted with musical variation
- Photographic developer, or more generally photographic processing, the chemicals and methods of revealing the latent image in photographic material
- Script development, the development process in movie making, aimed at getting a project greenlighted
Mathematics
[change | change source]- Net (polyhedron) in geometry, the development of a polyhedral solid
- Development (differential geometry), the process of rolling one surface over another, and generalizations of this idea, including:
- Parallel transport, the development of geometric data along curves
- Developable surfaces, surfaces which are developments of (i.e., isometric to) the plane
- Development (topology), a refinable net of open coverings.
Other
[change | change source]- develop, Apple Computer's programming magazine
- a synonym for fundraising
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