growth

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The process of growing.
• noun Full development; maturity.
• noun Development from a lower or simpler to a higher or more complex form; evolution.
• noun An increase, as in size, number, value, or strength; extension or expansion.
• noun Something that grows or has grown.
• noun An abnormal mass of tissue, such as a tumor, growing in or on a living organism.
• noun A result of growth; a product.
• adjective Expected to have or investing in businesses expected to have higher-than-average increases in revenues and returns.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The process of growing; gradual natural increase, as of an animal or vegetable body; specifically, the process of developing from a germ, seed, or root to maturity.
• noun Increase in any way, as in bulk, extent, number, strength, value, etc.; development; advancement; extension.
• noun That which has grown; anything produced; a product.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production; prevalence or influence
• noun That which has grown or is growing; anything produced; product; consequence; effect; result.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun an increase in size, number, value, or strength
• noun biology the act of growing, getting bigger or higher
• noun biology something that grows or has grown
• noun pathology an abnormal mass such as a tumor

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun the gradual beginning or coming forth
• noun (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)
• noun something grown or growing
• noun vegetation that has grown
• noun a progression from simpler to more complex forms
• noun (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
• noun a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important