Meanings of reach adult in English

This proportion more than doubles to reach adult levels by postnatal day 10.

Kits reach adult size by late August, departing soon after on often-violent struggles to secure a territory.

TBG concentrations reach adult levels at term.

These children seldom live to reach adult life and their lives usually are burdensome and full of misery.

Out of a million or more of babies born one, at least, is destined not to reach adult stature.

While young, they are reasonably peaceful, but when they reach adult age, they become aggressive, and quarrels are frequent.

Thereafter, the level of immunoreactivity for both proteins increased steadily, to reach adult levels in the next 2 postnatal weeks.

Many measures of visual function reach adult levels by about age 5, but some visual abilities continue to develop throughout adolescence.

TT4 and FT4 concentrations reach adult levels at approximately 36 weeks gestation, but TT3 and FT3 are always below adult concentrations.

More than 40,000 welfare institutes, including orphanages, and four SOS villages provide orphans with adequate adoption, medical and educational services until they reach adult age.

The original one was far too cramped now the animals were reaching adult size.

I said my aunt was right, and I made certain good resolutions, which were but short-lived and never reached adult maturity of usefulness.

It is probable that, after reaching adult years, they go on growing, though slowly, and that they live to forty or fifty years.

I use the limiting expression "almost" with reference to those among us who had reached adult manhood before they came to Freeland.