Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to development; formed or characterized by development: as, the developmental power of a germ.
- In biology, the same as
evolutionary .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the process of development.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Related to how
development occurs. - noun A
trainee flight controller .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or constituting development
Etymologies
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Examples
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The baby is just not succeeding at growing and meeting what we call developmental milestones.
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The 23rd national congress economic transformation resolutions place more emphasis on job creation, equitable spatial development, development of the productive forces and communities and what we called developmental economic growth.
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For this later study, they looked at those results through what they call a developmental lens.
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(www. preda.net) we implement what we call developmental Fair-trade.
PinoyPress 2010
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The film lingered in developmental hell for a while until being greenlit for pre-production.
PREACHER: From Page to Screen « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2009
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Howard A. Moss, 81, a National Institutes of Health senior scientist who did extensive work in developmental psychology, died Oct. 16 at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda.
Howard A. Moss, NIH Senior Scientist Post 2010
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Developing a core knowledge of the broad array of clinical diagnoses seen in developmental behavioral pediatrics, as well as the principles and scientific bases of etiology, intervention and research
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Despite the fact that the baby/infant/young child has little to no concept of gender, be it personal gender or even the concept of gender at large, he/she is already being bombarded with gender-specific stereotypes and imagery, so that by the point in developmental psychological that gender DOES start emerging, these pre-defined images are already solidly ingrained.
Women Audiences, Women Characters SVGL 2009
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Provide supervised clinical experiences in developmental-behavioral pediatrics in a broad range of ages and diagnostic categories in order to gain competence in assessing normal developmental and behavioral variations and in diagnosing and treating patients with developmental and behavioral disorders.
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And even though the movie has been in developmental limbo for decades, without a series of successful super hero movies, could there even be reason to release a post-modern film like Watchmen?
Superhero Movie Cage Match: Watchmen, The Dark Knight, The Incredibles 2009
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