Outgrowth
['aʊtɡroθ]
Definition
(n.) That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.
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Examples
- Absorption machines were the outgrowth of Faraday’s observations in 1823. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Inventions of this Century Outgrowth of Past Ones. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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