Growth

Growth refers to a positive change in size, and/or maturation, often over a period of time. Growth can occur as a stage of maturation or a process toward fullness or fulfillment. It can also perpetuate endlessly, for example, as detailed by some theories of the ultimate fate of the universe.

The quantity can be:

• Physical (e.g., growth in height, growth in an amount of money)
• 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.

Biology

• Cell growth
• A tumor is sometimes referred to as a "growth"
• Bacterial growth
• Human development (biology)
  • Auxology, the study of all aspects of human physical growth
• Growth hormone
• Primary growth, growth that elongates plants
• Secondary growth, growth that thickens woody plants

Social science

• Human development (humanity)
• Developmental psychology
• Personal development ("Personal growth")
• Erikson's stages of psychosocial development, stages of individual growth
• Population growth

Economy

• Economic growth
• Financial growth, due to simple or compound interest
• Growth investing

Mathematical models

• Linear growth
• Logistic growth, characterized as an S curve
• Exponential growth, also called geometric growth
• Hyperbolic growth

Films

• Growth (film), a 2010 American horror film

See also

• Grow (disambiguation)