Definition of Growth

Noun: growth  growth

1. (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 growth in children";
   - growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
    
2. A progression from simpler to more complex forms
   "the growth of culture"
    
3. A process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
   "the growth of population";
   - increase, increment
    
4. Vegetation that has grown
   "a growth of trees"; "the only growth was some salt grass"
    
5. The gradual beginning or coming forth
   "figurines presage the growth of sculpture in Greece";
   - emergence, outgrowth
    
6. (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumour)
    
7. Something grown or growing
   "a growth of hair"

See also:
grows
growthier

Anagrams containing the word growth

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