Growth may refer to:
Biology
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Auxology
Auxology,(from Greek , ''auxō'', or , ''auxanō'', "grow"; and , ''-logia''), is a meta-term covering the study of all aspects of human physical growth. (Although, it is also fundamental of biology.) Auxology is a multi-disciplinary science involv ...
, the study of all aspects of human physical growth
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Bacterial growth
250px, Growth is shown as ''L'' = log(numbers) where numbers is the number of colony forming units per ml, versus ''T'' (time.)
Bacterial growth is proliferation of bacterium into two daughter cells, in a process called binary fission. Providing ...
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Cell growth
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Growth hormone
Growth hormone (GH) or somatotropin, also known as human growth hormone (hGH or HGH) in its human form, is a peptide hormone that stimulates growth, cell reproduction, and cell regeneration in humans and other animals. It is thus important in h ...
, a peptide hormone that stimulates growth
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Human development (biology)
Development of the human body is the process of growth to maturity. The process begins with fertilization, where an egg released from the ovary of a female is penetrated by a sperm cell from a male. The resulting zygote develops through ...
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Plant growth Important structures in plant development are buds, shoots, roots, leaves, and flowers; plants produce these tissues and structures throughout their life from meristems located at the tips of organs, or between mature tissues. Thus, a living plant a ...
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Secondary growth
In botany, secondary growth is the growth that results from cell division in the cambia or lateral meristems and that causes the stems and roots to thicken, while primary growth is growth that occurs as a result of cell division at the tips of ...
, growth that thickens woody plants
Economics
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Economic growth, the increase in the inflation-adjusted market value of the goods and services
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Growth investing
Growth investing is a style of investment strategy focused on capital appreciation. Those who follow this style, known as ''growth investors'', invest in companies that exhibit signs of above-average growth, even if the share price appears expens ...
, a style of investment strategy focused on capital appreciation
Mathematics
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Exponential growth
Exponential growth is a process that increases quantity over time. It occurs when the instantaneous rate of change (that is, the derivative) of a quantity with respect to time is proportional to the quantity itself. Described as a function, a ...
, also called geometric growth
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Hyperbolic growth
When a quantity grows towards a singularity under a finite variation (a "finite-time singularity") it is said to undergo hyperbolic growth. More precisely, the reciprocal function 1/x has a hyperbola as a graph, and has a singularity at 0, meani ...
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Linear growth
In mathematics, the term linear function refers to two distinct but related notions:
* In calculus and related areas, a linear function is a function whose graph is a straight line, that is, a polynomial function of degree zero or one. For disti ...
, refers to two distinct but related notions
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Logistic growth
A logistic function or logistic curve is a common S-shaped curve (sigmoid curve) with equation
f(x) = \frac,
where
For values of x in the domain of real numbers from -\infty to +\infty, the S-curve shown on the right is obtained, with the ...
, characterized as an S curve
Social science
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Developmental psychology
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Erikson's stages of psychosocial development
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Human development (humanity)
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Personal development
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Population growth
Other uses
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''Growth'' (film), a 2010 American horror film
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Izaugsme
Growth () is a centrist political party in Latvia. It was founded on March 27, 2013 by cardiologist Andris Skride who is a member of the Development/For! alliance. It is governed by a board of five members – Artūrs Ancāns, Artūrs Čačka, ...
(''Growth''), a Latvian political party
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''Grown'' (album), by 2PM
See also
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Grow (disambiguation)
Grow or GROW may refer to:
* Growth (disambiguation), an increase in some quantity over time or a measure of some principal
* GROW model, a technique for problem solving or goal setting
* Graphical ROMable Object Windows, a windowing system that ...
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Growth curve (disambiguation) Growth curve can refer to:
* Growth curve (statistics), an empirical model of the evolution of a quantity over time.
*Growth curve (biology), a statistical growth curve used to model a biological quantity.
* Curve of growth (astronomy), the relation ...
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Growth impairment (disambiguation) Growth impairment may refer to:
* Intrauterine growth restriction
* Impaired economic growth
Economic growth can be defined as the increase or improvement in the inflation-adjusted market value of the goods and services produced by an economy ...
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Growth industry (disambiguation) Growth industry may refer to:
* Economics of growth hormone treatment
* Increasing demand, growth of economic demand
See also
* MLB Industry Growth Fund
* Industry (disambiguation)
Industry may refer to:
Economics
* Industry (economics), ...
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Growth model (disambiguation) Growth model can refer to:
*Population dynamics in demography
*Economic growth
:* Solow–Swan model in macroeconomics
:* Fei-Ranis model of economic growth
:*Endogenous growth theory
:* Kaldor's growth model
:* Harrod-Domar model
:* W.A Lewis gro ...
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Growth rate (disambiguation)
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Growth regulator (disambiguation)
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