Maturation
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Maturation is the process of becoming mature; the emergence of individual and behavioral characteristics through growth processes over time.
Maturation may refer to:
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- Developmental psychology
- Foetal development
- Maturity (geology), in petroleum geology
- Maturation, as a threat to internal validity of an experiment
- Tissue maturation, an aspect of developmental biology
- The final stages of cellular differentiation of cells, tissues, or organs