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Maturation

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The process of becoming mature. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus wordnet
  3. 3
    The process of differentiation that produces the adult form of an organism. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    (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 wordnet
  5. 5
    The process of maturating, or suppurating fully. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    coming to full development; becoming mature wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English maturacioun, from Middle French maturation, from Latin maturatio. By surface analysis, mature + -ation.

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