The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).
For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger
Offspring, progeny
An amount by which a quantity is increased.
To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.
(of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater.
The transfer of risk from one reinsurer to another.
The act of retroceding; a going back.
The return of land, rights, etc. previously ceded.
Metastasis of an eruption or tumour from the surface to the interior of the body.