Growth vs. Evolution

Growthnoun

An increase in size, number, value, or strength.

‘Growth was dampened by a softening of the global economy in 2001, but picked up in the subsequent years due to strong growth in China.’;

Evolutionnoun

The process of accumulating change.

‘Among other forms of change, the evolution of transportation has involved modification, diversification, convergence, divergence, hybridization, differentiation, and naturally, selection.’;

Growthnoun

(biology) The act of growing, getting bigger or higher.

Evolutionnoun

A progression of change, often branching and diversifying in the process.

‘The ongoing evolution of Lolita subculture fashion includes, among other things, the ballet style.’;

Growthnoun

(biology) Something that grows or has grown.

Evolutionnoun

(general) Gradual directional change especially one leading to a more advanced or complex form; growth; development.

‘The evolution of the universe began with a bang.’;

Growthnoun

(pathology) An abnormal mass such as a tumor.

Evolutionnoun

(biology) The change in the genetic composition of a population over successive generations.

Growthnoun

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.

Evolutionnoun

(chemistry) The act or an instance of giving off gas; emission.

Growthnoun

That which has grown or is growing; anything produced; product; consequence; effect; result.

‘Nature multiplies her fertile growth.’;

Evolutionnoun

(mathematics) The extraction of a root from a quantity.

Growthnoun

(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’;

Evolutionnoun

(military) One of a series of ordered movements.

Growthnoun

a progression from simpler to more complex forms;

‘the growth of culture’;

Evolutionnoun

A turning movement of the body.

Growthnoun

a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important;

‘the increase in unemployment’; ‘the growth of population’;

Evolutionnoun

The act of unfolding or unrolling; hence, any process of growth or development; as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg.

Growthnoun

vegetation that has grown;

‘a growth of trees’; ‘the only growth was some salt grass’;

Evolutionnoun

A series of things unrolled or unfolded.

Growthnoun

the gradual beginning or coming forth;

‘figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece’;

Evolutionnoun

The formation of an involute by unwrapping a thread from a curve as an evolute.

Growthnoun

(pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)

Evolutionnoun

The extraction of roots; - the reverse of involution.

Growthnoun

something grown or growing;

‘a growth of hair’;

Evolutionnoun

A prescribed movement of a body of troops, or a vessel or fleet; any movement designed to effect a new arrangement or disposition; a maneuver.

‘Those evolutions are best which can be executed with the greatest celerity, compatible with regularity.’;

Evolutionnoun

A general name for the history of the steps by which any living organism has acquired the morphological and physiological characters which distinguish it; a gradual unfolding of successive phases of growth or development.

Evolutionnoun

That theory of generation which supposes the germ to preëxist in the parent, and its parts to be developed, but not actually formed, by the procreative act; - opposed to epigenesis.

Evolutionnoun

That series of changes under natural law which involves continuous progress from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous in structure, and from the single and simple to the diverse and manifold in quality or function. The process is by some limited to organic beings; by others it is applied to the inorganic and the psychical. It is also applied to explain the existence and growth of institutions, manners, language, civilization, and every product of human activity. The agencies and laws of the process are variously explained by different philosophrs.

‘Evolution is to me series with development.’;

Evolutionnoun

a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage);

‘the development of his ideas took many years’; ‘the evolution of Greek civilization’; ‘the slow development of her skill as a writer’;

Evolutionnoun

(biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms

Evolutionnoun

the process by which different kinds of living organism are believed to have developed from earlier forms during the history of the earth.

Evolutionnoun

the gradual development of something

‘the forms of written languages undergo constant evolution’;

Evolutionnoun

the giving off of a gaseous product, or of heat

‘the evolution of oxygen occurs rapidly in this process’;

Evolutionnoun

a pattern of movements or manoeuvres

‘flocks of waders often perform aerial evolutions’;

Evolutionnoun

the extraction of a root from a given quantity.

Evolution

Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. These characteristics are the expressions of genes that are passed on from parent to offspring during reproduction.