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Rate of growth   /reɪt əv groʊθ/   Listen
Rate of growth

noun
1.
The rate of increase in size per unit time.  Synonym: growth rate.






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"Rate of growth" Quotes from Famous Books



... consultation over his food, his dress, his teething-rings, and his outgoing. He is weighed daily, and his nourishment is changed at once if he is a fraction either behind or ahead of what is deemed a normal and healthy rate of growth. American writers on the care of children give directions for the use of the most complex and time-devouring devices for the proper preparation of their food, and seem really to expect that mamma and nurse will go through with the ...
— The Land of Contrasts - A Briton's View of His American Kin • James Fullarton Muirhead

... rate of growth of the common branching madrepore is not over one and a half inches a year. As the branches are open, this would not be equivalent to more than half an inch in height of solid coral for the whole surface covered by the madrepore; and, as they are also porous, ...
— Critiques and Addresses • Thomas Henry Huxley



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