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RATE OF GROWTH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rate of growth mean?
• RATE OF GROWTH (noun)
The noun RATE OF GROWTH has 1 sense:
1. the rate of increase in size per unit time
Familiarity information: RATE OF GROWTH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("rate of growth" is a kind of...):
rate (a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rate of growth"):
isometry (the growth rates in different parts of a growing organism are the same)
Context examples
The first sets a basic rate of growth for the plant, based on available light.
(Sunflowers move from east to west, and back, by the clock, NSF)
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