growth

growth has 9 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

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