growth

Noun

• something grown or growing
  • a growth of hair
    

• (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)

• the gradual beginning or coming forth
  • figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece
    

• vegetation that has grown
  • a growth of trees
    
  • the only growth was some salt grass
    

• a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
  • the increase in unemployment
    
  • the growth of population
    

• a progression from simpler to more complex forms
  • the growth of culture
    

• (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
  • he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  emergence , outgrowth , increase , increment , growing , maturation , development , ontogeny , ontogenesis
• Antonyms: 
  decrease , decrement , nondevelopment