maturation Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

WordNet

Mat`u*ra"tion noun
Etymology
L. maturatio a hastening: cf. F. maturation.
Definitions
  1. The process of bringing, or of coming, to maturity; hence, specifically, the process of suppurating perfectly; the formation of pus or matter.

Webster 1913