Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Growth \Growth\, n. [Icel. gro?r, gr??i. See {Grow}.]
   1. 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; as, the growth of
      trade; the growth of power; the growth of intemperance.
      Idle weeds are fast in growth. --Shak.

   2. That which has grown or is growing; anything produced;
      product; consequence; effect; result.

            Nature multiplies her fertile growth. --Milton.

Source : WordNet®

growth
     n 1: (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" [syn: {growing}, {maturation},
           {development}, {ontogeny}, {ontogenesis}] [ant: {nondevelopment}]
     2: a progression from simpler to more complex forms; "the
        growth of culture"
     3: a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or
        more important; "the increase in unemployment"; "the
        growth of population" [syn: {increase}, {increment}] [ant:
         {decrease}, {decrease}]
     4: vegetation that has grown; "a growth of trees"; "the only
        growth was some salt grass"
     5: the gradual beginning or coming forth; "figurines presage
        the emergence of sculpture in Greece" [syn: {emergence}, {outgrowth}]
     6: (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a
        tumor)
     7: something grown or growing; "a growth of hair"