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hypergrowth

hypergrowth noun: extremely rapid growth.

Noun

hypergrowth (uncountable)

  1. Extremely rapid growth
    • United States-based online merchants are looking for ways to sustain the hypergrowth they experienced in their early years[…].2007 July 30, Bob Tedeschi, “U.S. Merchants Look to the North in Bid to Rejuvenate Slowing Sales”, in New York Times
    • The jungle-planet Pragia is overrun by choking hypergrowth caused by industrially-mutated plant species.2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Pragia

Forms of hypergrowth

alternative formhyper-growth

Origin of hypergrowth

From hyper- + growth.

Questions about hypergrowth

What does hypergrowth mean?
Hypergrowth means extremely rapid growth.
What part of speech is hypergrowth?
Hypergrowth is a noun.

Words near hypergrowth in the dictionary

  1. hypergrooming
  2. hypergroup
  3. hypergroupoid
  4. hypergroupoids
  5. hypergroups
  6. hypergrowth
  7. hyperguanidinaemia
  8. hyperguanidinemia
  9. hypergymnasia
  10. hypergyny
  11. hypergypsic

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