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Definition: DEVELOPMENT THEORY |
DEVELOPMENT THEORY1. (Biol.), the doctrine that animals and plants possess the power of passing by slow and successive stages from a lower to a higher state of organization, and that all the higher forms of life now in existence were thus developed by uniform laws from lower forms, and are not the result of special creative acts. See the Note under Darwinian . Syn: Unfolding; disclosure; unraveling; evolution; elaboration; growth. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
development theory | 47 |
child development theory | 29 |
human development theory | 15 |
cognitive development theory | 13 |
atomic development theory | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "DEVELOPMENT THEORY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Dutch | ontwikkelingskunde. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | evelopmentday eorythay.(various references) | |
Russian | эволюционная теория (Theory of Evolution). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-e-h-l-m-n-o-o-p-r-t-t-v-y" | |
-4 letters: redevelopment. | |
-5 letters: nephelometer, nephelometry, redeployment. | |
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