Maturation

Maturation is the process of becoming mature; the emergence of individual and behavioral characteristics through growth processes over time.

Maturation may refer to:

Science

 * 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