definition of
[maturation]

[1] #1 maturation n. [ripening, maturement] coming to full development; becoming mature. wn

[2] #2 maturation n. [growth, growing, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis] (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children". wn

[3] #3 maturation n. [festering, suppuration] (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus. wn