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ees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or give forth; as, to develop theories; a motor that develops 100 horse power. These serve to develop its tenets. Milner. The 20th was spent in strengthening our position and developing the line of the enemy. The Century.

Capable of being developed. J. Peile. Developable surface (Math.), a surface described by a moving right line, and such that consecutive positions of the generator intersect each other. Hence, the surface can be developed into a plane.

One who, or that which, develops.

The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an image upon a photographic plate; gradual advancement or growth through a series of progressive changes; also, the result of developing, or a developed state. A new developmen…

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the process of development; as, the developmental power of a germ. Carpenter.

Failure or lack of development.

To develop excessively; specif. (Photog.),

To develop again; specif. (Photog.),

To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to become sterile.

Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches. The eyes of the cirripeds are more or less aborted in their mature state. Owen.

Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed.

Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile; as, an abortive organ, stamen, ovule, etc.

The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds.

Developing from below towards the apex, or from the circumference towards the center; centripetal; -- said of certain inflorescence.

Having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. Hence: Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled. Dryden.

of two compounds, a chlorine derivative and bromine derivative, of hydroquinone, used as developers.

A form of fruit in the cycle of development of the Rusts or Brands, an order of fungi, formerly considered independent plants.

uses; esp., the investigation of the causes of any disease; the science of the origin and development of things.

A second growth or crop, or (metaphorically) development. J. S. Mill.

Any imperfect development of the body, or any anomaly of organization.