GROWTH
\ɡɹˈə͡ʊθ], \ɡɹˈəʊθ], \ɡ_ɹ_ˈəʊ_θ]\
Definitions of GROWTH
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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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"
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vegetation that has grown; "a growth of trees"; "the only growth was some salt grass"
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something grown or growing; "a growth of hair"
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a progression from simpler to more complex forms; "the growth of culture"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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vegetation that has grown; "a growth of trees"; "the only growth was some salt grass"
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something grown or growing; "a growth of hair"
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a progression from simpler to more complex forms; "the growth of culture"
By Princeton University
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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.
By Oddity Software
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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.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Gradual increase, as of a living organism; augmentation; progress; promotion.
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Anything grown; product; effect.
By James Champlin Fernald
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The process of growing that goes on in plants and animals; increase; advancement; progress; improvement; that which has grown; anything produced.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The act of growing; in crease; advancement: grown over, covered with a growth, as of creeping plants: to grow out of, to issue from, as a branch from a tree; to result from -to grow up, to arrive at full stature or maturity to grow together, to become united by growth.
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See under grow.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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The development of the body; particularly in the direction of its height. Also, any adventitious tissue; thus, we speak of a morbid growth or formation. See Development.
By Robley Dunglison
By Smith Ely Jelliffe