Description
1. A type of change over a period of time characterized by orderliness, and often by law-like, algorithmic or predictable processes.
2. Evolution.
3. Manifestation of potential.
4. Human development.
5. Societal development.
6. Economic development.
7. A type of variation, in music, associated with the transformations of thematic elements.
8. In literature, the movement of the plot or dramatic action, towards the climax.
9. Change as an outcome of probabilities or randomness.