Thesaurus: growth

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1. n. The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production; prevalence or influence; as, the growth of trade; the growth of power; the growth of intemperance. Idle weeds are fast in growth.
2. n. That which has grown or is growing; anything produced; product; consequence; effect; result.
3. n. (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
4. n. a progression from simpler to more complex forms
5. n. a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
6. n. vegetation that has grown
7. n. the gradual beginning or coming forth
8. n. (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)
9. n. something grown or growing
10. 1. The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production; prevalence or influence; as, the growth of trade; the growth of power; the growth of intemperance. Idle weeds are fast in growth. Shak. 2. That which has grown or is growing; anything produced; product; consequence; effect; result. Nature multiplies her fertile growth. Milton.
11. n:100 n. (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 n. a progression from simpler to more complex forms n. vegetation that has grown n. (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)