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development 1. an area or tract of land that has been developed 2. Music the section of a movement, usually in sonata form, in which the basic musical themes are developed 3. Chess a. the process of developing pieces b. the manner in which they are developed c. the position of the pieces in the early part of a game with reference to their attacking potential or defensive efficiency
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This market has given an immense development to commerce, to navigation, to communication by land. He by no means regarded man as the highest possible being which evolution could arrive at; for though his physical development may have reached its limit, this is not the case with his mental or spiritual attributes. So reconstructed, the earliest period appears to us as a time of slow development in which the characteristic epic metre, diction, and structure grew up slowly from crude elements and were improved until the verge of maturity was reached. |
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