n. | 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; |
2. | That which has grown or is growing; anything produced; product; consequence; effect; result. |
Noun | 1. | growth - (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" |
2. | growth - a progression from simpler to more complex forms; "the growth of culture" | |
3. | growth - a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important; "the increase in unemployment"; "the growth of population" | |
4. | growth - vegetation that has grown; "a growth of trees"; "the only growth was some salt grass" | |
5. | growth - the gradual beginning or coming forth; "figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece" | |
6. | growth - (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor) | |
7. | growth - something grown or growing; "a growth of hair" |