Noun
the rate of increase in size per unit time
Source: WordNetBoth a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself. Benjamin Graham
An extrapolation of its present rate of growth reveals that in the not too distant future Physical Review will fill bookshelves at a speed exceeding that of light. This is not forbidden by general relativity since no information is being conveyed. David Mermin
All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors. David R. Brower
It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment. Angela Merkel
There is no need for us to be satisfied with a rate of growth that keeps good men out of work and good capacity out of use. John F. Kennedy
We will see the increasingly rapid rate of growth weve already been seeing in Colorado continue. John Hickenlooper