Growth

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The process of growing.
  • n. Full development; maturity.
  • n. Development from a lower or simpler to a higher or more complex form; evolution.
  • n. An increase, as in size, number, value, or strength; extension or expansion: population growth.
  • n. Something that grows or has grown: a new growth of grass.
  • n. Pathology An abnormal mass of tissue, such as a tumor, growing in or on a living organism.
  • n. A result of growth; a product: concerns that are a growth of the new responsibilities.
  • adj. Expected to have or investing in businesses expected to have higher-than-average increases in revenues and returns: a growth stock; a growth fund.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. an increase in size, number, value, or strength
  • n. the act of growing, getting bigger or higher
  • n. something that grows or has grown
  • n. an abnormal mass such as a tumor
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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
  • n. That which has grown or is growing; anything produced; product; consequence; effect; result.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The process of growing; gradual natural increase, as of an animal or vegetable body; specifically, the process of developing from a germ, seed, or root to maturity.
  • n. Increase in any way, as in bulk, extent, number, strength, value, etc.; development; advancement; extension.
  • n. That which has grown; anything produced; a product.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the gradual beginning or coming forth
  • n. (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)
  • n. something grown or growing
  • n. vegetation that has grown
  • n. a progression from simpler to more complex forms
  • n. (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
  • n. a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    botany    flora    vegetation    development    evolution   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    augmentation    advancement    production    product    consequence    effect    result    adulthood    vegetation   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Goethe    both    loath    oath    sloth    troth   
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    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    development    increase    structure    progress    strength    expansion    product    improvement    flow    operations