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Growth refers to a positive change in size, 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) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「growth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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