hypergrowth

English

Alternative forms

• hyper-growth

Etymology

hyper- +‎ growth

Noun

hypergrowth (uncountable)

1. Extremely rapid growth
   • 2007 July 30, Bob Tedeschi, “U.S. Merchants Look to the North in Bid to Rejuvenate Slowing Sales”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     United States-based online merchants are looking for ways to sustain the hypergrowth they experienced in their early years […] .

   • 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Pragia:

     The jungle-planet Pragia is overrun by choking hypergrowth caused by industrially-mutated plant species.