Hair on the scalp grows about half a millimeter a day - about 6 inches per year. Unlike other mammals, hair growth and loss is random and not seasonal or cyclical. Hairs are in various stages of growth and shedding at any given time. There are three stages of hair growth: catagen, anagen and telogen.
DEFINITION of 'Annual Basis'. The return earned by an investment over the course of a year. Projections containing the phrase on an annual basis have usually used less than a year's worth of data to project a full year's worth of returns. For example, an investment might have returned 1.5% in one month. By multiplying this return by 12, an 18% annual basis is the result.
Phrase. ( 1 idiomatic) The first occurrence of an event that is scheduled or hoped to become annual. ( 2 somewhat rare) The second occurrence of an annual event, that is, the first occurrence that is indeed annual.