Definition of Growth

Noun

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

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