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growth - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'growth' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Growth [ 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.
- That which has grown or is growing; anything produced; product; consequence; effect; result.

Meaning of 'growth' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . growth [ n]
Meaning (1):
- something grown or growing
Example in sentence:
  • a growth of hair
Meaning (2):
- vegetation that has grown
Example in sentence:
  • a growth of trees;
  • the only growth was some salt grass
Meaning (3):
- the gradual beginning or coming forth
Example in sentence:
  • figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece
Meaning (4):
- (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
Example in sentence:
  • he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children
Meaning (5):
- a progression from simpler to more complex forms
Example in sentence:
  • the growth of culture
Meaning (6):
- a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
Example in sentence:
  • the growth of population;
  • the increase in unemployment