Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or process of growing out.
- noun A product of growing out; a projecting part or offshoot.
- noun A result or consequence.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That which grows out; an excrescence: specifically, in botany, a collective term for the various excrescences or growths from the general surface of plants, such as trichomes, prickles, bristles, the ligule of grasses, etc.
- noun A development or growth from some other or earlier condition or state of things; a growth, development, result, or resultant from any kind of cause or beginning.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Anything that
grows out of something else.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant
- noun a natural consequence of development
- noun the gradual beginning or coming forth
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Examples
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This doesn't mean that the NASA team "stole" the concept from DIRECT, but it indicates that this concept is a natural outgrowth from a desire to place these large shuttle payloads in orbit.
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White, the self-proclaimed leader of the American National Socialist Workers Party, described by authorities as a hate group, is charged under a new law that was an outgrowth from the killings of two family members of a Chicago judge.
Neo-Nazi charged with posting data on juror in the case of hate criminal Matthew Hale 2008
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Nerve fibre outgrowth from the chick ganglion is determined after 24 hours.
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But it’s really a natural outgrowth from the way you act like minorities think as a group and can’t change their mind, so why am I so surprised?
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The relative paucity of investments held by blacks and Hispanics tracks with previous studies, something that experts call an outgrowth of the gaping wealth disparities separating the races.
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So, to be fair, this year's GOP bill HR 1276 needs to be described as an outgrowth of the midnight gerrymander.
Jason Salzman: GOP's Midnight Gerrymander Is the Big Bang of Colorado Congressional Map-Drawing Fights Jason Salzman 2011
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So, to be fair, this year's GOP bill HR 1276 needs to be described as an outgrowth of the midnight gerrymander.
Jason Salzman: GOP's Midnight Gerrymander Is the Big Bang of Colorado Congressional Map-Drawing Fights Jason Salzman 2011
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The relative paucity of investments held by blacks and Hispanics tracks with previous studies, something that experts call an outgrowth of the gaping wealth disparities separating the races.
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And the prosecutors charge that in this complex conspiracy, the outgrowth was the bombing of the two embassies, in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
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Another outgrowth is a newly created Soul Committee, comprising primarily middle and senior managers from various functions through the company.
Beyond the Bottom Line Joel Makower 1994
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