(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 | (music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement) |
(electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state | a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion |
| (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated |
| emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species |