development vs evolution

development

noun
  • The process of developing; growth, directed change. 

  • A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings. 

  • The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it. 

  • The expression of a function in the form of a series. 

  • The building of such a project. 

  • Something which has developed. 

  • The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research). 

  • The process by in which previous material is transformed and restated. 

  • The second section of a piece of music in sonata form, in which the original theme is revisited in altered and varying form. 

  • The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells. 

evolution

noun
  • Development; the act or result of developing what was implicit in an idea, argument etc. 

  • The transformation of animals, plants and other living things into different forms (now understood as a change in genetic composition) by the accumulation of changes over successive generations. 

  • The extraction of a root from a given power. 

  • A manoeuvre of troops or ships. 

  • A process of gradual change in a given system, subject, product etc., especially from simpler to more complex forms. 

  • A turning movement, especially of the body. 

  • The opening out of a curve; now more generally, the gradual transformation of a curve by a change of the conditions generating it. 

  • The act or an instance of giving off gas; emission. 

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