life cycle vs development

development vs life cycle

life cycle and development both are nouns.

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

As nouns, development is a hypernym of life cycle; that is, development is a word with a broader meaning than life cycle:

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

Other hypernyms of life cycle include growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny.

life cycle (noun)	development (noun)
a series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage	act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining
the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced	the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful
	(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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