proliferation
The process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction.
Other meanings
The act of increasing, rising, or proliferating; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement.
In particular, the spread (proliferating) of biochemical, nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction to countries not originally involved in developing them.
Related words
- prolotherapy
- vasoproliferation
- alloproliferation
- angioproliferation
- antiproliferation
- proliferation therapy
- autoproliferation
- counterproliferation
- endoproliferation
- fibroproliferation
- horizontal proliferation
- hyperproliferation
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