1. Make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation
   "Her company developed a new kind of building material that withstands all kinds of weather"; "They developed a new technique" 
2. Work out
   "We have developed a new theory of evolution"
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Derived forms: developed, developing, develops

See also: developer, development

Type of: alter, ameliorate, amend, become, better, bring forth, change, come about, complicate, conjecture, create, create by mental act, create mentally, elaborate, expand, fall out, generate, go on, grow, hap, happen, hypothecate, hypothesise [Brit], hypothesize, improve, instruct, lay over, learn, meliorate, modify, occur, pass, pass off, play, rarify, refine, speculate, superimpose, superpose, suppose, take place, teach, theorise [Brit], theorize

Encyclopedia: Develop

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