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Growth means an increase in some quantity over time.
The quantity can be physical (e.g., growth in height, growth in an amount of money) or abstract (e.g., a system becoming more complex, an organism becoming more mature). It can also refer to the mode of growth, i.e. numeric models for describing how much a particular quantity grows over time:
- Cell growth
- Individual growth
- Fungal growth
- Auxology (Human development)
- Human development (biology)
- Growth "spurt" (rapid change in puberty)
- Human development (psychology)
- Human development (biology)
- Population growth
- Bacterial growth
- Tumours can sometimes be referred to as a growth
- Growth hormone
- Economic growth
- For financial growth due to simple interest or compound interest see Interest
- Personal growth, i.e., Personal development
- Mode
- Linear growth
- Logistic growth
- Exponential growth