DEVELOPED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does developed mean? 

• DEVELOPED (adjective)
  The adjective DEVELOPED has 3 senses:

1. being changed over time so as to be e.g. stronger or more complete or more useful

2. (used of societies) having high industrial development

3. (of real estate) made more useful and profitable as by building or laying out roads

  Familiarity information: DEVELOPED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEVELOPED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being changed over time so as to be e.g. stronger or more complete or more useful

Context example:

they have very small limbs with only two fully developed toes on each

Similar:

formulated (devised; developed according to an orderly plan)

mature; matured (fully considered and perfected)

Antonym:

undeveloped (not developed, mature, or fully formulated)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(used of societies) having high industrial development

Synonyms:

developed; highly-developed

Context example:

developed countries

Similar:

industrial (having highly developed industries)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(of real estate) made more useful and profitable as by building or laying out roads

Context example:

condominiums were built on the developed site

Similar:

improved (made more desirable or valuable or profitable; especially made ready for use or marketing)

 Context examples 

To a certain extent she had found his clay plastic, then it had developed stubbornness, declining to be shaped in the image of her father or of Mr. Butler.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A standardized rating scale originally developed by Margaret G. Woerner, Salvatore Mannuzza and John M. Kane in 1988 which is used to evaluate the severity of an individual's psychiatric symptoms.

(Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale A Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

The infrastructure and tools created by caBIG also have broad utility outside the cancer community. caBIG is being developed under the leadership of the National Cancer Institute's Center for Bioinformatics.

(Cancer Bioinformatics Grid, NCI Thesaurus)

Vegetable oil developed from rapeseed plant.

(Canola Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

We developed the test primarily for mushrooms as food products.

(New Test Identifies Poisonous Mushrooms, Agricultural Research Service)

The middle one of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates; its duct system is retained in the male as the epididymis and ductus deferens.

(Mesonephros, NCI Thesaurus)

The version 4.0 standard terminology developed to report adverse events occurring in cancer clinical trials.

(CDISC SDTM Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Event Grade Terminology Version 4.0, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A standard terminology developed to report adverse events occurring in cancer clinical trials.

(CDISC SDTM Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Event Grade Terminology V3.0, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The carcinogenicity value is usually measured as milligrams of agent administered per tumor developed.

(Carcinogenicity Test, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Developed by Strong (1920), the CBA/J mouse was disseminated to Andervont (1947) and then to Jackson Laboratory (1948).

(CBA/J Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)