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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Growth \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: growth n 1: 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" [syn: {growing}, {maturation}, {development}, {ontogeny}, {ontogenesis}] [ant: {nondevelopment}] 2: a progression from simpler to more complex forms; "the growth of culture" 3: a process of becoming larger; "the increase in unemployment"; "the growth of population" [syn: {increase}, {increment}] [ant: {decrease}, {decrease}] 4: vegetation that has grown; "a growth of trees"; "the only growth was some salt grass" 5: the gradual beginning or coming forth; "figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece" [syn: {emergence}, {outgrowth}] 6: (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor) 7: something grown or growing; "a growth of hair"
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