(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level | equality of measure (e.g., equality of height above sea level or equality of loudness etc.) |
coming to full development; becoming mature | equality of elevation above sea level |
(medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus | a one-to-one mapping of one metric space into another metric space that preserves the distances between each pair of points |
| the growth rates in different parts of a growing organism are the same |