S: (n) growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis ((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) "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children"
S: (n) process, physical process (a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states) "events now in process"; "the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls"
S: (n) phenomenon (any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning)
S: (n) chelation ((medicine) the process of removing a heavy metal from the bloodstream by means of a chelate as in treating lead or mercury poisoning)
S: (n) dealignment (a process whereby voters are moved toward nonpartisanship thus weakening the structure of political parties)
S: (n) degeneration, devolution (the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality)
S: (n) development, evolution (a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)) "the development of his ideas took many years"; "the evolution of Greek civilization"; "the slow development of her skill as a writer"
S: (n) economic process (any process affecting the production and development and management of material wealth)
S: (n) increase, increment, growth (a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important) "the increase in unemployment"; "the growth of population"
S: (n) industrial process (a systematic series of mechanical or chemical operations that produce or manufacture something)
S: (n) iteration, looping ((computer science) executing the same set of instructions a given number of times or until a specified result is obtained) "the solution is obtained by iteration"
S: (n) iteration, loop ((computer science) a single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated) "the solution took hundreds of iterations"
S: (n) operation, functioning, performance (process or manner of functioning or operating) "the power of its engine determines its operation"; "the plane's operation in high winds"; "they compared the cooking performance of each oven"; "the jet's performance conformed to high standards"
S: (n) photography (the process of producing images of objects on photosensitive surfaces)
S: (n) processing (preparing or putting through a prescribed procedure) "the processing of newly arrived immigrants"; "the processing of ore to obtain minerals"
S: (n) reversible process (any process in which a system can be made to pass through the same states in the reverse order when the process is reversed)
S: (n) sensitization, sensitisation ((psychology) the process of becoming highly sensitive to specific events or situations (especially emotional events or situations))