maturing
成熟,成熟的,成熟期,成熟化
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ma·tur·er, ma·tur·est.
- : complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- : ripe, as fruit, or fully aged, as cheese or wine.
- : fully developed in body or mind, as a person: She was a mature woman who took her family responsibilities seriously.
- : noting or pertaining to an adult who is middle-aged or older: discrimination against mature applicants.
- : pertaining to or characteristic of full development: a mature appearance; fruit with a mature softness.
- : completed, perfected, or elaborated in full by the mind: mature plans.
- : no longer developing or expanding; having little or no potential for further growth or expansion; exhausted or saturated.
- : intended for or restricted to adults, especially by reason of explicit sexual content or the inclusion of violence or obscene language: mature movies.
- : composed of adults, considered as being less susceptible than minors to explicit sexual content, violence, or obscene language, as of a film or stage performance: for mature audiences only.
- : Finance. having reached the limit of its time; having become payable or due: a mature bond.
- : Medicine/Medical. having attained definitive form or function, as by maturation of an epithelium from a basal layer.having attained the end stage of a normal or abnormal biological process: a mature boil.
- : Geology. exhibiting the stage of maximum topographical diversity, as in the cycle of erosion of a land surface.
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ma·tured, ma·tur·ing.
- : to make mature; ripen, as fruit or cheese.
- : to bring to full development: His hard experiences in the city matured him.
- : to complete or perfect: We matured our vision for the company.She matured her songwriting throughout her career.
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ma·tured, ma·tur·ing.
- : to become mature; ripen, as fruit or cheese.
- : to come to full development: Our plans have not yet matured.
- : Finance. to become due, as a note.
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The migration path has been to move applications that are least risky first, and with cloud technology rapidly maturing they have been able to accelerate these efforts.
She has matured tremendously as a person and as a basketball player.
Of course, by 2016, the market was already mature — particularly for Android phones.
Buy nowAs the gravel genre has matured, some bike features have become standardized.
Once technologies like that have matured, however, it will result in more powerful factories that are considerably smaller than those that already exist.
It was more the realization that he was maturing, even though he might not realize that.
And now we are looking at the agaves maturing 5, 6, 7-years-old.
The metro revolution reflects the maturing of U.S. cities and metros in terms of capacity and focus.
But when I got older, I started maturing and knowing my body a lot more.
It has to borrow about $4 trillion more to pay off maturing debt.
The color of the plants while growing, is a dark rich green, and they are of a uniform size, maturing slowly but thoroughly.
Plants that are slow in maturing never (p. 442) make fine wrapping leaves or show a good color.
The selection of large, well-formed plants for the maturing of the seeds, is of more importance than most growers are aware of.
"None whatever," Jack replied, a plan rapidly maturing in his mind as to what he would do if Eloise persisted in going to Florida.
But it was true that the Foreign Office gave small attention to the great nationalist movements that were maturing in Europe.