growth Definition

1a. The process or rate of growing;

Thesaurus: expansion, development, maturation, ripening, growing, burgeoning, stretching, widening, proliferation, multiplication; Antonym: shrinkage, stagnation.
1b. The increase in size, weight and complexity of a living organism that takes place as it develops to maturity.
2. An increase.
3. econ.
An increase in economic activity or profitability.
4. medicine.
A benign or malignant tumour formed as a result of the uncontrolled multiplication of cells.