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