maturation meaning and definition

MATURATION noun

Definition of maturation (noun)

1. coming to full development; becoming mature
   • synonyms: maturement, ripening
2. (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
   • "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children"
   • synonyms: development, growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny
   • antonym: nondevelopment
3. (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
   • synonyms: festering, suppuration