Maturity

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Maturity may refer to:

• Sexual maturity
• Mature technology, a term indicating that a technology has been in use and development for long enough that most of its initial problems have been overcome
• Maturity (geology), a geological term describing rock, source rock, and hydrocarbon generation
• Maturity (sedimentology), a geological term describing the proximity of a sedimentary deposit from its source
• Maturity (finance), a financial term indicating the final date for payment of principal and interest
• Capability Maturity Model, a software engineering term indicating to which extent it is planned how to do things when developing, testing, documenting, maintaining software etc. See also software development process.
• Maturity (psychological), a term used in psychology to indicate that a person responds to the circumstances or environment in an appropriate manner. See also: Developmental Psychology.