Development Facts for Kids

Development has meaning in several contexts:

Engineering

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)

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 development, processes of change in societies
Economic development, the economic aspect of social change
Sociocultural evolution or cultural development
Sustainable development
- Community development
Development studies, the multidisciplinary social scientific study of development

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

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

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.