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RATE OF GROWTH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The rate of increase in size per unit time
Synonyms:
growth rate; rate of growth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
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)