Growth

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)
 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

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