development vs growing

1.n.act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining

“he congratulated them on their development of a plan to meet the emergency”

2.n.a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)

“the development of his ideas took many years”

3.n.(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level

“he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children”

1.n.(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level

“he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children”

2.n.(electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state

3.adj.relating to or suitable for growth

“the growing season for corn”