Definition of "developing" []

• Having a relatively low level of industrial capability, technological sophistication, and economic productivity: studied the economies of developing nations. (adjective)

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• "  Some of the analyses or the evaluations have focused, for example, on the effects on the developing reproductive system or the developing  nervous system."
• "Notice the definition of fetus uses the term developing human not potential and that both the definitions refer to them as states or stages of the adult."
• "This is also why the term developing countries is used."