development vs life cycle

life cycle vs development

development and life cycle both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
development	Yes	No	No	No
life cycle	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, life cycle is a hyponym of development; that is, life cycle is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than development:

development: (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
life cycle: the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced

Other hyponyms of development include culture, amelogenesis, angiogenesis, apposition, auxesis, anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, inflorescence, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis, cohesion, cultivation, cytogenesis, cytogeny, foliation, leafing, fructification, gametogenesis, germination, sprouting, habit, infructescence, intussusception, juvenescence, masculinisation, masculinization, virilisation, virilization, morphogenesis, myelinisation, myelinization, neurogenesis, palingenesis, recapitulation, proliferation, psychogenesis, psychogenesis, psychomotor development, psychosexual development, rooting, suppression, dentition, odontiasis, teething, teratogenesis, vegetation.

development (noun)	life cycle (noun)
act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining	a series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage
the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful	the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced
(music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated
a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation
a district that has been developed to serve some purpose
processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible
(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
a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)
a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess)

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