We investigate the finite-dimensionality and growth of algebras specified by a system of polylinearly interrelated generators. The results obtained are formulated in terms of a function ρ.Assume that V = V m is an m-dimensional vector space over a certain field k with basis ( e 1 , … , e m ) ,A free associative algebra T m with m generators can be regarded as a tensor algebra T ( V m ). Let I = I ( ψ 1 , … , ψ s ) denote a (two-sided) ideal in T m generated by elements ψ 1 , … , ψ s .In the present paper, we study the problem of finite-dimensionality and growth of the algebras T m / I, depending on m, s, and the polynomials ψ i , under a certain restriction on the form of the polynomials ϕ i , which is, apparently, inessential.Assume that k = Q ( Σ ) is an infinite purely transcendental extension of a field Q obtained by the adjunction to Q of an algebraically independent countable set Σ, n 1 , … , n s ∈ N, n i ≤ n j for i < j, and ϕ i = x n i +1 , i = 1, s. Further, let M be a matrix whose rows are vectors v 1 , … , v s . It is easy to see that elementary transformations of columns of the matrix M as well as permutations of its rows and the multiplication of an arbitrary row by a nonzero element q ∈ k do not change (up to an isomorphism) the algebra T m / I ( ψ 1 , … , ψ s ).If s ≤ m, then the problem of finite-dimensionality and growth of the algebras T m / I = T m / I ( ψ 1 , … , ψ s ) is trivial:(a) the algebra T m / I has polynomial growth for s = m = 2 and n 1 = n 2 = 1, (b) in the other cases, T m / I has exponential growth.Let s > m. The matrix M can be reduced to the formwhere E is the m × m identity matrix and S is a certain r × m matrix ( r = s -m ) over k. Thus, we can set v i = e i for i = 1, m.