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Webster 1913 Edition


Growth

Growth

(grōth)
,
Noun.
[Icel. grōðr, grōði. 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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Growth

GROWTH

,
Noun.
The gradual increase of animal and vegetable bodies; the process of springing from a germ, seed or root,and proceeding to full size, by the addition of matter, through ducts and secretory vessels. In plants, vegetation. We speak of slow growth and rapid growth; of early growth; late growth and full growth.
1.
Product; produce; that which has grown; as a fine growth of wood.
2.
Production; any thing produced; as a poem of English growth.
3.
Increase in number, bulk or frequency.
4.
Increase in extent or prevalence; as the growth of trade; the growth of vice.
5.
Advancement; progress; improvement; as growth in grace or piety.

Definition 2024


growth

growth

English

Noun

growth (countable and uncountable, plural growths)

  1. An increase in size, number, value, or strength.
    • 2013 June 22, Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:
      Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. [] Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
    Growth was dampened by a softening of the global economy in 2001, but picked up in the subsequent years due to strong growth in China.
  2. (biology) The act of growing, getting bigger or higher.
  3. (biology) Something that grows or has grown.
  4. (pathology) An abnormal mass such as a tumor.

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  • (pathology: abnormal mass such as a tumor): tumor

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