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increase, increases, increased, increasing (verb forms)
1. To become, or becoming, greater or larger.
2. To multiply, or multiplying; to reproduce.
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Units related to: “increase”
auc-
(Greek: increase, growth)
plethor-, plethysmo-
(Greek: excess, superabundance, overly full, fullness; increase)
aug-, auc-, auct-, auxano-, auxi-, aux-, auxo-
(Greek > Latin: to increase, to grow; growth)
cresc-, -cret, -crease
(Latin: to become greater or larger in amount or size, to grow, to multiply, to increase; to reproduce)
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intrinsic rate of increase (s) (noun) (no pl)
Symbolized by r, the fraction by which a population is growing in each instant of time: The intrinsic rate of increase is often used in the population ecology of insects to determine how the factors of the environment affect the rate of population growth of insect pests.
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