Growth vs. Increase — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Growth and Increase
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Growth
The process of growing.
Increase
To become greater or larger.
Growth
Full development; maturity.
Increase
To multiply; reproduce.
Growth
Development from a lower or simpler to a higher or more complex form; evolution.
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Increase
To make greater or larger.
Growth
An increase, as in size, number, value, or strength; extension or expansion
Population growth.
Increase
The act of increasing
A steady increase in temperature.
Growth
Something that grows or has grown
A new growth of grass.
Increase
The amount or rate by which something is increased
A tax increase of 15 percent.
Growth
An abnormal mass of tissue, such as a tumor, growing in or on a living organism.
Increase
(Obsolete) Reproduction and spread; propagation.
Growth
A result of growth; a product
Concerns that are a growth of the new responsibilities.
Increase
(intransitive) (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater.
His rage only increased when I told him of the lost money.
Growth
Expected to have or investing in businesses expected to have higher-than-average increases in revenues and returns
A growth stock.
A growth fund.
Increase
(transitive) To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.
Growth
An increase in size, number, value, or strength.
Increase
To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
Growth
(economics) economic growth
Growth was dampened by a softening of the global economy in 2001, but picked up in the subsequent years due to strong growth in China.
Increase
To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
The Moon increases.
Growth
An increase in psychological strength or resilience; an increased ability to overcome adversity.
Struggle, disappointment, and criticism all contribute to a person's growth.
Increase
An amount by which a quantity is increased.
Growth
(biology) The act of growing, getting bigger or higher.
Increase
For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger
Growth
(biology) Something that grows or has grown.
Increase
Offspring, progeny
Growth
(pathology) An abnormal mass such as a tumor.
Increase
(knitting) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).
Growth
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.
Increase
To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance; - opposed to decrease.
The waters increased and bare up the ark.
He must increase, but I must decrease.
The heavens forbidBut that our loves and comforts should increase,Even as our days do grow!
Growth
That which has grown or is growing; anything produced; product; consequence; effect; result.
Nature multiplies her fertile growth.
Increase
To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
Fishes are more numerous or increasing than beasts or birds, as appears by their numerous spawn.
Growth
(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
Increase
To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax; as, the moon increases.
Growth
A progression from simpler to more complex forms;
The growth of culture
Increase
To augment or make greater in bulk, quantity, extent, value, or amount, etc.; to add to; to extend; to lengthen; to enhance; to aggravate; as, to increase one's possessions, influence.
I will increase the famine.
Make denialsIncrease your services.
Growth
A process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important;
The increase in unemployment
The growth of population
Increase
Addition or enlargement in size, extent, quantity, number, intensity, value, substance, etc.; augmentation; growth.
As if increase of appetite had grownBy what it fed on.
For things of tender kind for pleasure madeShoot up with swift increase, and sudden are decay'd.
Growth
Vegetation that has grown;
A growth of trees
The only growth was some salt grass
Increase
That which is added to the original stock by augmentation or growth; produce; profit; interest.
Take thou no usury of him, or increase.
Let them not live to taste this land's increase.
Growth
The gradual beginning or coming forth;
Figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece
Increase
Progeny; issue; offspring.
All the increase of thy house shall die in the flower of their age.
Growth
(pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)
Increase
Generation.
Growth
Something grown or growing;
A growth of hair
Increase
The period of increasing light, or luminous phase; the waxing; - said of the moon.
Seeds, hair, nails, hedges, and herbs will grow soonest if set or cut in the increase of the moon.
Increase
A quantity that is added;
There was an addition to property taxes this year
They recorded the cattle's gain in weight over a period of weeks
Increase
A change resulting in an increase;
The increase is scheduled for next month
Increase
A process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important;
The increase in unemployment
The growth of population
Increase
The amount by which something increases;
They proposed an increase of 15 percent in the fare
Increase
The act of increasing something;
He gave me an increase in salary
Increase
Become bigger or greater in amount;
The amount of work increased
Increase
Make bigger or more;
The boss finally increased her salary
The university increased the number of students it admitted
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