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[froo-ISH-ahn] 
1. realization of a desired outcome: "After years of urban living, Dan's dream of having his own garden was coming to fruition."
2. pleasure or satisfaction derived from possession or use
3. the state of bearing fruit
Origin:
Approximately 1413; from Middle English, 'fruycion': enjoyment; borrowed through Middle French, 'fruition,' and directly from Late Latin, 'fruitionem': enjoyment (nominative 'fruitio'); from Latin, 'frui': to enjoy, to use. In action:
"In the first phase of the project, Caron said it's unlikely anyone will actually be performing experiments in the ocean. The plan is to conduct detection research in the more controlled environment of a laboratory tank.
As for the robotics end of the experiment, Requicha cautions that the technology for creating microscopic bots -- though progressing rapidly -- is still probably at least a decade away from fruition. However, he views the scanning probe microscope test as a first step on the way to determining the kind of sensing capabilities the bots would need to detect the presence of harmful algae.
As an ultimate goal, Requicha said the plan is to engineer anywhere from several thousand to several million micron-scale robots (a micron is one-thousandth of a millimeter) capable of detecting dangerous algae growths. He stops short of setting a date for achieving this target, noting that the state of nanotechnology's development is about where the Internet was in the late 1960s."
Joanna Glasner. "Tiny Bots to Scour Big Blue Ocean," Wired News (January 15, 2002).
"Similar predictions followed the attacks of Sept. 11: more marriages and a baby boom. It's too early to say if they've come to fruition. The only baby boom we can be statistically sure of happened at Parrot Jungle in Miami, where 13 Caribbean flamingo chicks were born this year. According to the Miami Herald, that was more than had been born there in the last 10 years. And while there do seem to be a lot of new human babies this summer, July and August are statistically big months for births anyway, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Most experts agree that the baby-boom theory is probably a bust.
Cole Kazdin. "Remember 'terror sex'? [What happened to the relationships kindled or rekindled in the aftermath of Sept. 11?] Salon.com (September 11, 2002).
"It is my opinion that time brings all things to fruition; by time all things are made plain; time is the father of truth."
Francois Rabelais (1494-1553). French author, evangelist.
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