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.
annual general meeting. n (Brit) the statutory meeting of the directors and shareholders of a company or of the members of a society, held once every financial year, at which the annual report is presented, (Abbrev.) AGM. annual parallax. n See â parallax â 2.