GROWTH meaning: 1. The growth of a person, animal, or plant is its process of increasing in size: 2. an increase…. Learn more.

Growth is seldom random. Rather, it occurs according to a plan that eventually determines the size and shape of the individual. Growth may be restricted to special regions of the organism, such as the layers of cells that divide and increase in size near the tip of the plant shoot.

Definition of growth noun in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

A growth is a lump that grows inside or on a person, animal, or plant, and that is caused by a disease. This type of surgery could even be used to extract cancerous growths.

growth (groʊθ) n. 1. the act or process or a manner of growing; development; gradual increase. 2. size or stage of development: to reach one's full growth. 3. completed development. 4. development from a simpler to a more complex stage. 5. development from another but related form or stage.

development from another but related form or stage: the growth of the nation state. something that has grown or developed by or as if by a natural process: a growth of stubborn weeds.

Growth refers to the process of increasing in size, amount, value, or importance. It can be physical, such as a living organism develops and becomes larger over time, or it can be abstract, such as a company experiencing significant expansion in its operations or profits.