| Noun | 1. | developing - processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible; "the development and printing of his pictures took only two hours"processing - preparing or putting through a prescribed procedure; "the processing of newly arrived immigrants"; "the processing of ore to obtain minerals" underdevelopment - (photography) inadequate processing of film resulting in inadequate contrast |
| Adj. | 1. | developing - relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supplynonindustrial - not having highly developed manufacturing enterprises; "a nonindustrial society" |