maturation

n 1: coming to full development; becoming mature [syn: {maturing},

{ripening}, {maturement}]

2: 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}]