} Growth refers to an increase in some quantity over time. 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
- 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
- For financial growth due to simple interest or compound interest see 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
Famous quotes containing the word growth:
“I conceive that the leading characteristic of the nineteenth century has been the rapid growth of the scientific spirit, the consequent application of scientific methods of investigation to all the problems with which the human mind is occupied, and the correlative rejection of traditional beliefs which have proved their incompetence to bear such investigation.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to benumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.”
—Ida M. Tarbell (1857–1944)
“Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)