Development has meaning in several contexts:

Science and engineering

• Biological development of embryos in the context of developmental biology (also see maturation)
• Child development (physical emphasis) or post-natal human development (pediatrics, etc)
• Software engineering, the methodology and process of development of computer software
• Technology development in industry, as in Software development
• New product development in business and engineering
• Net (polyhedron) in geometry, the development of a polyhedral solid
• parallel transport in differential geometry, the development of geometric data along curves

Social sciences

• Economic development in economics and international relations
• International development, the process of economic and social development in poor countries.
• Child development (psychological emphasis), part of the larger area of human development (psychology) or developmental psychology
• Social development in sociology, the process involved with the evolution of societies
• Urban development in urban planning