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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



... petition was presented to Congress, praying the suspension of the provision which prohibited slavery in that Territory. The report stated "that the rapid population of the State of Ohio sufficiently evinces, in the opinion of your committee, that the labor of slaves is not necessary to promote the growth and settlement of colonies in that region. That this labor, demonstrably the dearest of any, can only be employed to advantage in the cultivation of products more valuable than any known to that quarter of the United States; that the committee ...
— Report of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Opinions of the Judges Thereof, in the Case of Dred Scott versus John F.A. Sandford • Benjamin C. Howard
... heart was touched and she swallowed over a lump in her throat. She had taken up the rose from a place where it had been smothered with those of larger growth and given it to the child who had begged for "a garden of her very own." She had not supposed it would live. And that Cynthia should ...
— A Little Girl in Old Salem • Amanda Minnie Douglas
... he knew must be Sunk Creek grown a little wider and deeper in its journey down the valley. He forded that with a great splashing, climbed the farther bank, followed a stubby, rocky bit of road that wound through dense willow and cottonwood growth, came out into a humpy meadow full of ant hills, gopher holes and soggy wet places where the water grass grew, crossed that and followed the road around a brushy ridge and found himself squarely ...
— Cow-Country • B. M. Bower
... which you worship. Do you think that all these great minds—for they are minds, and their work was not the product of a merely highly organised material frame—were the outcome of some system of material generation, which your so-called science can subject to rule, and teach men how to produce by growth, as they grow vegetables?" ...
— Arrows of Freethought • George W. Foote
... fertilizing showers, of growth and life, it is easily seen how Ixchel came to be the deity both of women in childbirth and of the medical art, a Juno Sospita as ...
— American Hero-Myths - A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent • Daniel G. Brinton


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