maturation : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: maturation	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for maturation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
maturation n coming to full development; becoming mature [syn: maturation, 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" Synonym(s): growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis Antonym(s): nondevelopment (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus Synonym(s): festering, suppuration, maturation
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.