GROWTH RATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does growth rate mean? 

• GROWTH RATE (noun)
  The noun GROWTH RATE has 1 sense:

1. the rate of increase in size per unit time

  Familiarity information: GROWTH RATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GROWTH RATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The rate of increase in size per unit time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

growth rate; rate of growth

Hypernyms ("growth rate" is a kind of...):

rate (a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "growth rate"):

isometry (the growth rates in different parts of a growing organism are the same)

 Context examples 

USDA Red is a semi-flat type of spinach with a medium growth rate and semi-erect leaves.

(World's First True Red Spinach Variety Released, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

To sustain growth rates, kelp requires many nutrients, especially nitrogen, but changes in ocean currents reduce the availability of such nutrients each year beginning in May.

(In search of an undersea kelp forest's missing nitrogen, National Science Foundation)

The overall prognosis of ovarian carcinoma remains poor, a direct result of its rapid growth rate and the lack of early symptoms. —2002

(Ovarian Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Using these samples, the researchers were able to reconstruct the total lifespan and juvenile growth rates of trees that were growing during both industrial and pre-industrial climate conditions.

(Amount of carbon stored in forests reduced as climate warms, University of Cambridge)

Not to mention Turkey, where the population growth rate jumped from -3.9% in 2006-2007 to +1.29% in 2007-2008.

(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)

The size and explosive growth rate of the newfound hole, however, surprised them.

(Huge Cavity in Antarctic Glacier Signals Rapid Decay, NASA)

The annual growth rate of atmospheric CO2 measured at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii jumped 3.05 ppm during 2015, the largest year-to-year increase in 56 years of monitoring.

(South Pole is last place on Earth to pass global warming milestone, NOAA)

The objective of a grading system is to provide information about the probable growth rate of the tumor and its tendency to spread.

(Grading, NCI Dictionary)

Specific types of nail discoloration and changes in growth rate can be signs of lung, heart, kidney, and liver diseases, as well as diabetes and anemia.

(Nail Diseases, NIH)

A series of mathematical equations that relates the growth rate of tumors to the way they respond to therapy.

(Norton-Simon Model, NCI Thesaurus)