WordNet
n. the rate of increase in size per unit time [syn: rate of growth]
Wikipedia
In group theory, the growth rate of a group with respect to a symmetric generating set describes the size of balls in the group. Every element in the group can be written as a product of generators, and the growth rate counts the number of elements that can be written as a product of length n.
Growth rate may refer to:
- Exponential growth, a growth rate classification
- Any of a variety of growth rates classified by such things as the Landau notation
- Compound annual growth rate or CAGR, a measure of financial growth
- Economic growth, the increase in value of the goods and services produced by an economy
- Growth rate (group theory), a property of a group in group theory
- Population growth rate, change in population over time
Usage examples of "growth rate".
In the years since, Florida has absorbed into its population approximately 300,000 people a year, for a relative growth rate almost triple that of the rest of the country.
There are now some 9000 such stores in the United States with an annual rental volume on the order of one billion dollars and a growth rate of from 10 to 20 percent per year.
In 1992, the Chinese economy was highballing at an annual growth rate of 12.
White Castle's growth rate in the 1920s was extraordinary, and by the end of the decade the company was a dominant force in the American restaurant industry.
His main point doesn't depend on the actual growth rate, in any case, as long as it is less than exponential.
Obviously their growth rate simply wasn't that of Earth creatures.
The growth rate was inhibited but it has had a great many years, a young Groalterri's very long lifetime, in which to grow to its present size.
The US Commercial Service, in the American Embassy in Moscow, predicts an annual growth rate of the Russian ICT sector of 15-20 percent through 2003.
Its economy is foundering, with a growth rate of 2 percent and unemployment running at close to 30 percent.
She poked fun at the way Lieserl's bony wrists stuck out of her sleeves (Lieserl's growth rate was slowing, but she was still growing out of her clothes during a day).