growth Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun (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
    development; ontogenesis; maturation; ontogeny; growing.
    • he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children
  2. noun a progression from simpler to more complex forms
    • the growth of culture
  3. noun a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
    increase; increment.
    • the increase in unemployment
    • the growth of population
  4. noun vegetation that has grown
    • a growth of trees
    • the only growth was some salt grass
  5. noun the gradual beginning or coming forth
    outgrowth; emergence.
    • figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece
  6. noun (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)
  7. noun something grown or growing
    • a growth of hair

WordNet

Growth noun
Etymology
Icel. gror, gri. See Grow.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913