DICTOMETER

GROWTH

(growth, acrecentamiento, aumento, incremento, medra, tumor, svulst, vekst, økning)

1. Synonyms:
   • Growth
   • Growing
   • Maturation
   • Development
   • Ontogeny
   • Ontogenesis
   Definitions:
   • (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
   Examples:
   • He proposed an indicator of osseous development in children
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Growth
   Definitions:
   • a progression from simpler to more complex forms
   Examples:
   • The growth of culture
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Increase
   • Increment
   • Growth
   Definitions:
   • a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
   Examples:
   • The increase in unemployment
   • The growth of population
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Growth
   Definitions:
   • vegetation that has grown
   Examples:
   • A growth of trees
   • The only growth was some salt grass
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Emergence
   • Outgrowth
   • Growth
   Definitions:
   • the gradual beginning or coming forth
   Examples:
   • Figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Growth
   Definitions:
   • (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Growth
   Definitions:
   • something grown or growing
   Examples:
   • A growth of hair