Crossword clues for maturation
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "the coming to a head of a boil, etc.; a state of producing pus," from Middle French maturation and directly from Latin maturationem (nominative maturatio), noun of action from past participle stem of maturare "to ripen, make ripe" (see mature (v.)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The process of becoming mature 2 (context biology English) The process of differentiation that produces the adult form of an organism
WordNet
n. coming to full development; becoming mature [syn: ripening, maturement]
(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" [syn: growth, growing, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis] [ant: nondevelopment]
(medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus [syn: festering, suppuration]
Wikipedia
Maturation is the process of becoming mature; the emergence of individual and behavioral characteristics through growth processes over time.
It can also refer to any of the following:
- Fetal development
- Developmental biology
- In petroleum geology, the maturation of a rock is a measure of its state in terms of hydrocarbon generation.
- Psychological development
- Physical maturation of any biological life form – see individual articles for maturation of different life forms.
- In research, a threat to internal validity in which subjects change during the course of the experiment or even between measurements and the researcher may not be able to determine if the cause of the discrepancy is due to time or the independent variable.
- The final stages of cellular differentiation of cells, tissues, or organs.
- The process of storing alcoholic beverages in wooden cylindrical containers intended to impart a change in flavour and colouring.
- Any process that develops a finished product that is different from its beginning stage through processes that involve the passing of time, often resulting in a more desired or effective product. Such processes can encompass things such as cheese or other food fermentations, and Mature_technology.
Usage examples of "maturation".
Those two hardy human meals would have strengthened the great barghest considerably, perhaps even bringing Ulgulu to the level of maturation he needed to return to Gehenna.
His intellectual faculties aroused, Gummitch had two days later intuited a further and greater secret: since he was the child of humans he would, upon reaching this maturation date of which Old Horsemeat had spoken, turn not into a sullen torn but into a godlike human youth with reddish golden hair the color of his present fur.
The Clan had always had Choosers and mental linkage between mated pairs before maturation.
The capsules and flowerheads of some plants are bowed downwards through geotropism, and they then bury themselves in the earth for the protection and slow maturation of the seeds.
If children at fifteen, for example, are given the future autobiographies they themselves wrote at age twelve, they can see how maturation has altered their own images of the future.
In a single generation, we can produce thousands of female offspring who, after a chemically accelerated maturation process, will undergo the same genetic transformation we did.
This period coincides with her most fruitful years as a writer, and all of the work she produced during that time reflects her growth and maturation into the writer who is today a recognized figure in America's literary pantheon.
From Hong's comments, it seemed to Jason that Hayes had probably been isolating some kind of growth factor which would stimulate growth, or differentiation, or maturation, or all three.
They also engineered his phenomenally rapid maturation with human growth hormone and raised him from fetus to thirtyish adult with nonstop intravenous feeding and electrically stimulated muscle development over a period of less than two years.
Dropping human juvenile hormone on Russia would cause early maturation.
I was greatly impressed, many years ago, by the works of a man whom I still regard as having been the most acute student of mythologies of his generation: Leo Frobenius, who viewed the entire history of mankind as a great and single organic process, comparable, in its stages of growth, maturation, and continuation toward senility, to the stages of any single lifetime.
The seeds from these worlds we've liberated, and the Pollinators essential to their maturation.
And some way answered in the progressionall perfection of animal semination, in its spermaticall maturation, from crude pubescency unto perfection.
What happens when she becomes an adolescent and that gland awakes from its sleep and becomes for twenty months the most powerful force in the human body, ordering everything from the sudden maturation of the primary and secondary sex characteristics to an increased production of visual purple in the eye?
The servant girl, Anna, had told her of his devotion to Blessing and how he had agonized over their daughter's unnatural maturation.