developing

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of develop

adj

1. In the process of development.

   “a developing foetus”

2. Of a country: becoming economically more mature or advanced; becoming industrialized.

noun

1. A process of development.

   “In the developings of an inscrutable Providence, the kingdoms of the earth have become embroiled, and who can say where the complication will terminate?”