desarrollo

Definitions of desarrollo
  1. noun
    act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining
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    adelanto, progreso
    gradual improvement or growth or development
    elaboración
    developing in intricate and painstaking detail
    avance
    the advancement of some enterprise
    type of:
    mejora, mejoramiento
    the act of improving something
  2. noun
    the act of building up an accumulation
    synonyms: acumulación, bombo, concentración, publicidad
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    deposición
    the act of putting something somewhere
    acopio, almacenado, almacenaje, almacenamiento
    depositing in a warehouse
  3. noun
    (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
    synonyms: crecimiento, cultivo, ontogénesis, vegetación
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    cierne, eclosión, florecimiento
    the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
    foliación
    (botany) the process of forming leaves
    germinación
    the process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow
    proliferación
    growth by the rapid multiplication of parts
    arraigo
    the process of putting forth roots and beginning to grow
    type of:
    proceso biológico
    a process occurring in living organisms
  4. noun
    a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)
    synonyms: evolución
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    antonyms:
    degeneración
    the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality
    types:
    crecimiento
    a progression from simpler to more complex forms
    despliegue, florecimiento
    a developmental process
    type of:
    proceso
    a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states
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