{
  "id": "growth.development",
  "term": "growth",
  "sense": "development",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 2,
  "arena": "growth",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "more matter in a place over time",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "matter.substance",
      "space.extent",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "more matter moves into more space during time",
    "novel_properties": [
      "increased amount",
      "expanded extent"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Great Barrier Reef added 1.5 meters of calcium carbonate structure per century in the 20th century.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The city of Lagos expanded from 3 million people in 1980 to over 15 million by 2020.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Bitcoin's blockchain reached 500 gigabytes in size by 2023, adding roughly 100 gigabytes per year.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "development.growth",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "baby.human",
    "bush.plant",
    "cancer.disease",
    "career.occupation",
    "children.human",
    "garden.planting",
    "mature.development",
    "snowball-effect.stacked-dependency",
    "spring.season"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "growth",
    "growths"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-growth.development"
}