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Growth   /groʊθ/   Listen
Growth

noun
1.
(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.  Synonyms: development, growing, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny.
2.
A progression from simpler to more complex forms.
3.
A process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important.  Synonyms: increase, increment.  "The growth of population"
4.
Vegetation that has grown.  "The only growth was some salt grass"
5.
The gradual beginning or coming forth.  Synonyms: emergence, outgrowth.
6.
(pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor).
7.
Something grown or growing.



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"Growth" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Spring, Your growth is a beautiful thing; But give us your fragrance and bloom - Yea, give us your lives in truth, Give us your sweetness and grace To brighten the resting-place Of the flower of manhood and youth, Gone into ...
— Hello, Boys! • Ella Wheeler Wilcox
... Alan, as he sat up and wiped his eyes. "That'll fix Angus Niel! We've scared him out of a year's growth, and he'll never dare meddle with this place again. Come on, now. It's time to go home, but to-morrow we'll come back and fix this place up in a way that would make Robinson Crusoe green ...
— The Scotch Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins
... development? I had no business to interfere like that. You might be exactly right about it, and I wrong, so far as you yourself were concerned. And even if I were right and you wrong, the only chance of growth for you was to exploit the matter and find it ...
— The Power and the Glory • Grace MacGowan Cooke
... movements of the hour-hand and minute-hand of a clock. Now the forces which bring about a change of character or temperament belong to the hidden forces of the etheric body. They are of the same nature as the forces which govern the kingdom of life,—the same, therefore, as the forces of growth, nutrition, and generation. Further explanations in this work will throw the ...
— An Outline of Occult Science • Rudolf Steiner
... to make its appearance. As we got further up the mountain, the vegetation was more abundant and flowers were growing here and there. The further we went the greener was the foliage, the stronger the growth, and when we reached the height we were in a grove of ...
— Trials and Triumphs of Faith • Mary Cole


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