a process of becoming larger; "the increase in unemployment"; "the growth of population"
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growth
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"
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increase
the act of increasing something; "he gave me an increase in salary"
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swelling
abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement [medic.]