Hypertext Webster Gateway: "maturation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Maturation \Mat`u*ra"tion\, n. [L. maturatio a hastening: cf. F.
maturation.]
The process of bringing, or of coming, to maturity; hence,
specifically, the process of suppurating perfectly; the
formation of pus or matter.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
maturation
n 1: coming to full development; becoming mature [syn: {ripening},
{maturement}]
2: 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" [syn: {growth}, {growing}, {development},
{ontogeny}, {ontogenesis}] [ant: {nondevelopment}]
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