growth : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: growth	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for growth
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
growth 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; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children" Synonym(s): growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis Antonym(s): nondevelopment a progression from simpler to more complex forms; "the growth of culture" a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important; "the increase in unemployment"; "the growth of population" Synonym(s): increase, increment, growth Antonym(s): decrease, decrement vegetation that has grown; "a growth of trees"; "the only growth was some salt grass" the gradual beginning or coming forth; "figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece" Synonym(s): emergence, outgrowth, growth (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor) something grown or growing; "a growth of hair"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Growth \Growth\, n. [Icel. gro[?]r, gr[?][?]i. See {Grow}.] 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; as, the growth of trade; the growth of power; the growth of intemperance. Idle weeds are fast in growth. --Shak. 2. That which has grown or is growing; anything produced; product; consequence; effect; result. Nature multiplies her fertile growth. --Milton.