Definition of growth

• (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"
• a progression from simpler to more complex forms; "the growth of culture"
• a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important; "the increase in unemployment"; "the growth of population"