Maturation
# 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
