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maturation /matjʊˈreɪʃ(ə)n /noun [mass noun]1The action or process of maturing: sexual maturation...- These observations suggest that there may be links between sexual maturation and the emergence of preferences for specific body shapes.
- Today, marriage is viewed as the natural outcome of emotional and sexual maturation, and a prolonged single status is stigmatizing for women.
- It is about understanding the beauty of discovery that can lead to emotional growth and maturation.
1.1The process by which wine or other fermented drinks become ready for drinking: white wines generally need less maturation than reds...- If our understanding of red wine maturation is incomplete, even less is known about the ageing process in white wines.
- The process is essentially the same as the white wine process: gathering the grapes, fermentation, maturation and bottling.
- While available in magnums, this is not a wine requiring the slow maturation that a larger bottle brings.
1.2The ripening of fruit: pod maturation...- After fruit maturation, all fruits were collected before dehiscence.
- Owing to fruit maturation, the number of inflorescences supported by females was higher than that supported by males later in the reproductive season.
- At fruit maturation, all flowering shoots on the marked plants were collected and brought to the laboratory.
1.3 Medicine The development of functional ova or sperm cells.Selenium has also been shown to be important for sperm development and maturation....- They have been shown to influence crustacean larval development, egg maturation and reproductive timing and capacity.
- The enzyme is regulated by bicarbonate and involved in sperm maturation.
2The formation of pus in a boil, abscess, etc. Derivatives maturational adjective ...- ‘The situation of the growing brain might deserve special concern, since biological and maturational processes are particularly vulnerable,’ he said.
- In addition, a common feature of the traditional view in professional education is that students develop according to a maturational unfolding of their abilities.
- In accordance with their criteria, we were unable to detect a maturational pattern in our cases.
maturative /məˈtʃʊərətɪv / adjective ...- They are not to be judged as true or false but as effective or ineffective, maturative or pathogenic.
Origin Late Middle English (denoting the formation of pus): from medieval Latin maturatio(n-), from Latin maturare (see mature). |