noun. Growth resulting from increase in cell size without cell division.

noun. In botany, the method of increase in size of the valves of diatoms.

noun. In rhetoric, amplification; exaggeration; hyperbole; the use of a more unusual and high-sounding word for the ordinary and proper word.

noun. In mathematics, the ratio in which the element of a figure has to be magnified to make it conform to the corresponding element of a conformable figure.

noun. A figure by which a grave and magnificent word is put for the proper word; amplification; hyperbole.

noun. Extreme hyperbole.

noun. Arranging words or clauses in a sequence of increasing force.

noun. Amplification in any form.

noun. The growth of an organism without cell division

noun. growth from increase in cell size without cell division

"The one is the discussion of an indefinite question, or general truth, which by the Greeks (as I have before observed) is called a _thesis_: and the other is employed in amplifying and exaggerating, which they call an _auxesis_."

auxetic  auxetically  

development  growing  growth  maturation  ontogenesis  

amplification  climax  hyperbole  incrementum