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Growth

1. The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production; prevalence or influence; as, the growth of trade; the growth of power; the growth of intemperance. Idle weeds are fast in growth.

2. That which has grown or is growing; anything produced; product; consequence; effect; result. Nature multiplies her fertile growth. (Milton)

Origin: Iceland. Gror, gri. See grow. a progression from simpler to more complex forms; the growth of culture.A process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important; the increase in unemployment; the growth of population.(pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor).The irreversible increase of dry Mass in an organism.