developing

Thân thiện

A photographer is developing film in a darkroom.

Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Relating to societies or nations that are in the process of economic and industrial growth: The term describes countries that are progressing from a primarily agricultural or low-income economy toward a more industrialized, higher-income state, often characterized by a shortage of capital needed for industrialization.
   • In the process of growing, changing, or becoming more advanced: Can describe anything (e.g., an idea, a skill, a situation) that is in a state of progression or evolution.

2. Noun:

   • The act of processing a photosensitive material to make a latent image visible: This refers specifically to the chemical process in photography where film or photographic paper is treated with developer solutions to produce a visible image.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:

  • International aid is often directed toward developing nations to improve infrastructure.
  • She has a developing interest in astrophysics.
  • The developing situation in the region requires careful monitoring.

• Noun:

  • The developing of the film must be done in complete darkness.
  • His job in the darkroom involves the developing and printing of photographs.

Advanced Usage

• "Developing world": A collective term for developing countries.

  • Technological innovations are rapidly changing the developing world.

• In economic contexts, "developing" is often contrasted with "developed" and sometimes "underdeveloped."

  • The conference focused on trade relations between developed and developing economies.

Variants and Related Words

• Develop (verb): To grow or cause to grow and become more mature, advanced, or elaborate.
  • The company plans to develop new software.
• Development (noun): The process of developing or being developed.
  • The development of this theory took decades.
• Developer (noun): A person or thing that develops something (e.g., property, software, photographic film).
  • She works as a software developer.

Synonyms

• Adjective: Emerging, growing, evolving, maturing, industrializing.
• Noun: Processing, treatment (specific to photography).

Related Phrases

• Developing country/nation/economy: The most common collocation for the adjective form.
  • Climate change poses a significant threat to developing countries.
• In the developing stage: Used to describe a project or idea that is not yet complete.
  • The product is still in the developing stage.

Notes on Meaning

• The adjective "developing" is primarily used in socio-economic contexts but can be applied more broadly to any ongoing process of growth.
• The noun form is technical and specific to photography. In modern digital contexts, this usage is less common but still correct for film photography.
• Avoid using "developing" as a noun to mean "a developing country"; the correct term is "a developing nation" or "a developing country."

Học thuật

Adjective

1. relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply

Noun

1. processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible
   • the development and printing of his pictures took only two hours

Từ đồng nghĩa

• underdeveloped
• development