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Growth
| Growth Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Growth?
[n] the gradual beginning or coming forth; "figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece"
[n] vegetation that has grown; "a growth of trees"; "the only growth was some salt grass"
[n] something grown or growing; "a growth of hair"
[n] 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 development in children"
[n] a progression from simpler to more complex forms; "the growth of culture"
[n] a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important; "the increase in unemployment"; "the growth of population"
[n] (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)
Synonyms | Synonyms for Growth: development |
emergence |
growing |
increase |
increment |
maturation |
ontogenesis |
ontogeny |
outgrowth
Related Terms | Find terms related to Growth: about-face |
abscess |
access |
accession |
accomplishment |
accretion |
accrual |
accruement |
accumulation |
addition |
advance |
advancement |
aggrandizement |
ague |
alchemy |
amplification |
anemia |
ankylosis |
anoxia |
apnea |
appreciation |
ascent |
asphyxiation |
assimilation |
assumption |
asthma |
ataxia |
atrophy |
augmentation |
backache |
ballooning |
becoming |
benign tumor |
bleeding |
blennorhea |
bloating |
blossoming |
boom |
boost |
bottoming out |
broadening |
budding |
buildup |
burgeoning |
business cycle |
business fluctuations |
bust |
cachexia |
cachexy |
callosity |
callus |
cancer |
carcinoma |
change |
change-over |
chill |
chills |
clump |
colic |
constipation |
conversion |
convulsion |
cooling off |
corn |
coughing |
crescendo |
crisis |
crop |
cultivation |
cyanosis |
cyst |
depression |
development |
developmental change |
diarrhea |
dizziness |
downturn |
dropsy |
dysentery |
dyspepsia |
dyspnea |
economic cycle |
economic expansion |
economic growth |
edema |
elaboration |
elevation |
emaciation |
enlargement |
evolution |
evolutionary change |
evolvement |
evolving |
excrescence |
expanding economy |
expansion |
explication |
extension |
fainting |
fatigue |
fever |
fibrillation |
flip-flop |
flood |
flowering |
flux |
fungosity |
fungus |
furtherance |
gain |
gemmation |
germination |
gradual change |
greatening |
gush |
hassock |
hemorrhage |
high blood pressure |
high growth rate |
hike |
hydrops |
hypertension |
hypotension |
icterus |
improvement |
increase |
increment |
indigestion |
inflammation |
inflation |
insomnia |
intumescence |
itching |
jaundice |
jump |
labored breathing |
lapse |
leap |
low |
low blood pressure |
lumbago |
lump |
luxuriation |
malignant growth |
marasmus |
market expansion |
maturation |
metastatic tumor |
mole |
morbid growth |
mounting |
multiplication |
nasal discharge |
natural development |
natural growth |
naturalization |
nausea |
necrosis |
neoplasm |
nevus |
nonmalignant tumor |
nonviolent change |
nurturing |
outgrowth |
overgrowth |
pain |
paralysis |
passage |
peak |
peaking |
plantation |
planting |
procreation |
productiveness |
progress |
progression |
proliferation |
prosperity |
proud flesh |
pruritus |
pullulation |
raise |
rash |
recession |
reconversion |
recovery |
reduction |
re-formation |
reproduction |
resolution |
reversal |
rheum |
ripening |
rise |
sarcoma |
sclerosis |
seizure |
shift |
shock |
skin eruption |
slowdown |
slump |
sneezing |
snowballing |
sore |
spasm |
spread |
sprouting |
stand |
success |
surge |
swelling |
switch |
switch-over |
tabes |
tachycardia |
transformation |
transit |
transition |
tuft |
tumescence |
tumor |
turning into |
tussock |
unfolding |
up |
upgrowth |
upping |
upset stomach |
upsurge |
upswing |
uptrend |
upturn |
vegetation |
verruca |
vertigo |
volte-face |
vomiting |
wart |
wasting |
waxing |
wen |
widening
See Also | accretion |
accumulation |
amelogenesis |
angiogenesis |
anthesis |
apposition |
auxesis |
beginning |
biological process |
blossoming |
broadening |
caenogenesis |
cainogenesis |
cenogenesis |
cohesion |
culture |
cytogenesis |
dentition |
efflorescence |
evolution |
excrescence |
exostosis |
flora |
florescence |
flowering |
foliation |
fructification |
gametogenesis |
gastrulation |
germination |
hamartoma |
illness |
inflorescence |
ingrowth |
intussusception |
juvenescence |
kainogenesis |
kenogenesis |
leafing |
life cycle |
malady |
masculinisation |
masculinization |
morphogenesis |
multiplication |
myelinisation |
myelinization |
neoplasm |
neurogenesis |
object |
odontiasis |
organic process |
palingenesis |
peduncle |
physical object |
polyp |
polypus |
population growth |
process |
proliferation |
psychomotor development |
psychosexual development |
pullulation |
recapitulation |
relaxation |
rise |
rooting |
sickness |
sprouting |
suppression |
teething |
teratogenesis |
tumor |
tumour |
unwellness |
vegetation |
vegetation |
virilisation |
virilization |
widening
Growth In Webster's Dictionary
\Growth\, n. [Icel. gro?r, gr??i. See {Grow}.]
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.
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