Word Finder - developments

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The process of developing; growth, directed change.

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The development of this story has been slow.

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The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.

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The organism has reached a crucial stage in its development.

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Something which has developed.

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Our news team brings you the latest developments.

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A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings.

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The building of such a project.

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The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).

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Our development department has produced three new adhesives this year.

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The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.

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White's development is good, but black's has been hampered by the pawn on e5.

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The process by in which previous material is transformed and restated.

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The second section of a piece of music in sonata form, in which the original theme is revisited in altered and varying form.

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The expression of a function in the form of a series.

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A group of building complexes or apartments. Often used for low income housing.

He watched, startled at the developments.

In this way he has gone over a great portion of the field of physics, and in many cases has either said the last word for the time being, or else started new and fruitful developments.

But the circumstances of the country at his accession were ill adapted for liberal developments.

Identity theft is a hot topic, with new developments constantly appearing.

Fred returned early and was informed of the new developments.

His suggestions led to different developments.

His ascription to man of a unique faculty, free-will, forbade his conceiving our species as a link in a graduated series of organic developments.

Joncieres, however, adhered to the recognized forms of the French opera and did not model his works according to the later developments of the Wagnerian "music drama."

But it was on the banks of the Rhine that the Napoleonic system received its most signal developments.

The Aegean remains have become astonishingly uniform over the whole area; the local ceramic developments have almost ceased and been replaced by ware of one general type both of fabric and decoration.

Permanent defences at Scapa were, however, abandoned in 1913, owing to the developments of submarine warfare, which rendered it very costly to protect the various entrances.

The theological and philosophical developments of the second quarter of the 19th century were characterized by the transcendental movement.

Agriculture, pottery, weaving, the domestication of animals, the burying of the dead in dolmens, and the rearing of megalithic monuments are the typical developments of man during this stage.

The second half of the 17th century witnessed remarkable transitions and developments in all branches of natural science,and the facts accumulated by preceding generations during their generally unordered researches were re placed by a co-ordination of experiment and deduction.

The 18th century witnessed striking developments in pneumatic chemistry, or the chemistry of gases, which had been begun by van Helmont, Mayow, Hales and Boyle.

Since the time of Berzelius many experimenters have entered the lists, and introduced developments which we have not space to mention.

It never again obtained a footing there; for, although, late in the middle ages, the book of Revelation - by what means we cannot tell - did recover its authority, the Church was by that time so hopelessly trammelled by a magical cultus as to be incapable of fresh developments.

His contributions to the theories of Elasticity and of Waves rank high among modern developments of mathematical physics, although they are mere units among the 150 scientific papers attached to his name in the Royal Society's Catalogue.

The project of the Code Napoleon, however - the code itself not being available in Louisiana, though promulgated in France in 1804 - was used by the compilers in the arrangement and substance of their work; and the French traditions of the colony, thus illustrated, were naturally introduced more and more into the organic commentaries and developments that grew up around the Code Napoleon.

This survey of the existing developments of pure mathematics confirms the conclusions arrived at from the previous survey of the theoretical principles of the subject.

Viewing the subject as a whole, and apart from remote developments which have not in fact seriously influenced the great structure of the mathematics of the European races, it may be said to have had its origin with the Greeks, working on pre-existing fragmentary lines of thought derived from the Egyptians and Phoenicians.

The Congress of Verona (1822) passed without any serious developments in the Eastern Question.

An account of the collapse of the Turkish power before Mehemet Ali, and of the complicated diplomatic developments that followed, is given in the article Mehemet Ali.

The 17th century saw notable developments.

At the diet of1790-1791laws were passed not only confirming the royal prerogatives Leopold and the national liberties, but leaving the way open for 1792790- future developments.

The renaissance of mathematics was thus effected in Italy, and it is to that country that the leading developments of the following century were due.

A state of war, actual or contingent, gives occasion to special developments of medical and surgical practice (military hygiene and military surgery).

This doctrine, of which the developments need not further be followed, was important chiefly in so far that it was perfectly distinct from, and opposed to, the humoral pathology of Hippocrates.

The developments of this school belong rather to the history of physiology, where they appear, seen in the light of modern science, as excellent though premature endeavours in a scientific direction.

One of the most elaborate developments of the system was that of Archibald Pitcairne (1652-1713), a Scottish physician who became professor at Leiden, to be spoken of hereafter.

But it is impossible here to follow its further developments.

The mistake is often made of sinking large and expensive shafts, or driving costly tunnels, before it is fully proved that the deposit can be worked on a scale to warrant such developments, and, indeed, too often before it is known that the deposit can be worked at all; and in too many cases large amounts of money are thus unnecessarily lost by over-sanguine mine managers.

Moreover, he was from the first aware of the probable developments of the Revolution and of the consequences to Prussia of the weakness and vacillations of her policy.

The recent large increase in the number of varieties of glass has been chiefly due to developments in the manufacture of optical glass.

Among the many developments of the Jena Works, not the least important are the glasses made in the form of a tube, from which gas-chimneys, gauge-glasses and chemical apparatus are fashioned, specially adapted to resist sudden changes of temperature.

Beginning in the bosom of prophecy, and steadily differentiating itself from it in its successive developments, it never came to stand in absolute contrast to it.

Much of the earlier electrometallurgical work was done with furnaces of the (a) type, while nearly all the later developments have been with those of class (b).

The arc furnaces now widely used in the manufacture of calcium carbide on a large scale are chiefly developments of the Siemens furnace.

On the other hand, if laws of social phenomena, empirically generalized from history, can, when once suggested, be affiliated to the known laws of human nature; if the direction actually taken by the developments and changes of human society, can be seen to be such as the properties of man and of his dwelling-place made antecedently probable, the empirical generalizations are raised into positive laws, and sociology becomes a science."

Yet even in this way he helped to found the historical school in literature and science, for it was only after an excessive and sentimental interest in primitive human culture had been awakened that this subject would receive the amount of attention which was requisite for the genetic explanation of later developments.

Herder is more successful in tracing the early developments of particular peoples than in constructing a scientific theory of evolution.

The uta-awase, in its later developments, may not unjustly be compared to the Occidental game of bouts-rimis.

There are, however, no modern developments of such work to be noted.

One of the most remarkable developments of figure sculpture in modern Japan was due to Matsumoto Kisaburo (1830-1869).

No important new developments have taken place during modern times in Japans lacquer manufacture.

In tracing the history of the religion of the Roman people we are not, as in the case of Greece, dealing with separate, though interacting, developments in a number of independent communities, but with a single community which won its way to the headship first of Latium, then of Italy and finally of a European empire.

A complete summary of the great developments of mathematical learning, which the members of this family effected, lies outside the scope of this notice.

The Yue-Chi and Turks, however, may both represent parallel developments of similar or even originally identical tribes.

To the last he maintained the narrow standpoint of Pusey and Keble, in defiance of all the developments of modern thought and modern scholarship; and his latter years were embittered by the consciousness that the younger generation of the disciples of his school were beginning to make friends of the Mammon of scientific unrighteousness.

As the result of these developments, the value of the oil product increased from $ 2 77, 1 35 (54 6, 0 7 0 bbls.) in 1898, to $871,996 (836,039 bbls.) in 1900; to $4,174,731 (18,083,658 bbls.) in 1902; and to $10,410,865 (12,322,696 bbls.) in 1907; it decreased to $6,700,708 (11,206,464 bbls.) in 1908.