Meaning of growth

Definition of growth

(noun) (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 development in children"
a progression from simpler to more complex forms; "the growth of culture"
a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important; "the increase in unemployment"; "the growth of population"
vegetation that has grown; "a growth of trees"; "the only growth was some salt grass"
the gradual beginning or coming forth; "figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece"
(pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)
something grown or growing; "a growth of hair"

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