Growth vs Stretching - What's the difference?
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An increase in size, number, value, or strength.
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, title= (biology) The act of growing, getting bigger or higher.
(biology) Something that grows or has grown.
(pathology) An abnormal mass such as a tumor.
The act by which something is stretched.
* 1859 , Victor Regnault, Elements of Chemistry
A form of physical exercise in which a specific skeletal muscle (or muscle group) is deliberately elongated to its fullest length in order to improve the muscle's felt elasticity and reaffirm comfortable muscle tone.
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Growth is a related term of stretching.
As nouns the difference between growth and stretching
is that growth is an increase in size, number, value, or strength while stretching is the act by which something is stretched.As a verb stretching is
.growth
English
(wikipedia growth)Noun
(en noun)Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.
Synonyms
* (increase in size) enlargement, expansion, increase, increment * (act of growing) development, maturation * (something that grows or has grown) vegetation * outgrowth, cancer, massAntonyms
* (increase in size) contraction, decrease, decrement, reduction * (act of growing) nondevelopmentDerived terms
* growth spurt * growth stock * overgrowth * undergrowthHyponyms
* tumorstretching
English
Noun
(wikipedia stretching) (en noun)- [Skins] must be submitted to several washings, treadings, and stretchings , before they acquire the necessary pliancy.
