Dictionary Definition
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; "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 or longer or more
numerous or more important; "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"
User Contributed Dictionary
Noun
Synonyms
Antonyms
- sense increase in size contraction, decrease, decrement, reduction
- sense act of growing nondevelopment
Hyponyms
Translations
increase in size
- Breton: kresk
- Czech: růst
- Dutch: groei, toename
- Finnish: kasvu
- French: croissance
- German: Wachstum
- Hebrew: גדילה (gdilɑ) , צמיחה (tsmiḥɑ)
- Italian: crescita
- Norwegian: vekst
- Portuguese: acréscimo
- Slovene: rast , porast
- Swedish: stigande , tilltagande , tillväxt , utvidgning
- West Frisian: groei oanwaaks
act of growing
something that grows or has grown
- Dutch: groei
- Finnish: kasvu
- Hebrew: צמחייה (tsimḥiɑ)
- Slovene: rastje
- Swedish: vegetation , växt , växtlighet
pathology: abnormal mass such as a tumor
- ttbc Spanish: crecimiento
Derived terms
Extensive Definition
Growth refers to an increase in some quantity
over time. The quantity can be physical (e.g., growth in height,
growth in an amount of money) or abstract (e.g., a system becoming
more complex, an organism becoming more mature). It can also refer
to the mode of growth, i.e. numeric models for describing how much
a particular quantity grows over time:
- Cell growth
- Individual
growth
- Fungal growth
- Auxology (Human
development)
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Human development (biology)
- Growth "spurt" (rapid change in puberty)
- Human development (psychology)
-
Human development (biology)
- Population growth
- A tumour is sometimes be referred to as a growth
- Growth hormone
- Economic growth
- For financial growth due to simple interest or compound interest see Interest
- Personal growth, i.e., Personal development
- Mode
growth in Arabic: نمو
growth in German: Wuchs
growth in French: Croissance
growth in Polish: Wzrost
growth in Simple English: Growth
growth in Slovak: Rast
growth in Swedish: Tillväxt
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
about-face, abscess, access, accession, accomplishment, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, addition, advance, advancement, aggrandizement, ague, alchemy, amplification, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, appreciation, ascent, asphyxiation, assimilation, assumption, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, augmentation, backache, ballooning, becoming, benign tumor,
bleeding, blennorhea, bloating, blossoming, boom, boost, bottoming out, broadening, budding, buildup, burgeoning, business cycle,
business fluctuations, bust, cachexia, cachexy, callosity, callus, cancer, carcinoma, change, change-over, chill, chills, clump, colic, constipation, conversion, convulsion, cooling off,
corn, coughing, crescendo, crisis, crop, cultivation, cyanosis, cyst, depression, development, developmental
change, diarrhea,
dizziness, downturn, dropsy, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, economic cycle,
economic expansion, economic growth, edema, elaboration, elevation, emaciation, enlargement, evolution, evolutionary
change, evolvement,
evolving, excrescence, expanding
economy, expansion,
explication,
extension, fainting, fatigue, fever, fibrillation, flip-flop,
flood, flowering, flux, fungosity, fungus, furtherance, gain, gemmation, germination, gradual change,
greatening, gush, hassock, hemorrhage, high blood
pressure, high growth rate, hike, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, icterus, improvement, increase, increment, indigestion, inflammation, inflation, insomnia, intumescence, itching, jaundice, jump, labored breathing, lapse, leap, low, low blood pressure, lumbago, lump, luxuriation, malignant
growth, marasmus,
market expansion, maturation, metastatic tumor,
mole, morbid growth,
mounting, multiplication, nasal
discharge, natural development, natural growth, naturalization, nausea, necrosis, neoplasm, nevus, nonmalignant tumor,
nonviolent change, nurturing, outgrowth, overgrowth, pain, paralysis, passage, peak, peaking, plantation, planting, procreation, productiveness, progress, progression, proliferation, prosperity, proud flesh,
pruritus, pullulation, raise, rash, re-formation, recession, reconversion, recovery, reduction, reproduction, resolution, reversal, rheum, ripening, rise, sarcoma, sclerosis, seizure, shift, shock, skin eruption, slowdown, slump, sneezing, snowballing, sore, spasm, spread, sprouting, stand, success, surge, swelling, switch, switch-over, tabes, tachycardia, transformation, transit, transition, tuft, tumescence, tumor, turning into, tussock, unfolding, up, upgrowth, upping, upset stomach, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, vegetation, verruca, vertigo, volte-face, vomiting, wart, wasting, waxing, wen, widening