Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In zoology, the origination and development of generative zoöids, as in the formation of medusa-buds (planoblasts or hedrioblasts) by a polyp. See planoblast.
- n. In botany, same as prolification.
- n. Increase in size by reproduction of the primary elements.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable The process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction.
- n. countable The act of increasing or rising; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement.
- n. countable The result of building up; buildup, accretion.
- n. uncountable The spread of biochemical, nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction to countries not originally involved in developing them.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Biol.) The continuous development of cells in tissue formation; cell formation.
- n. (Zoöl.) The production of numerous zooids by budding, especially when buds arise from other buds in succession.
WordNet 3.0
- n. growth by the rapid multiplication of parts
- n. a rapid increase in number (especially a rapid increase in the number of deadly weapons)
Etymologies
- From proliferate + -ation. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I personally do whatever I can to avoid having to pronounce the word proliferation.”
“I mean, one threat, of course, is a proliferation threat, which we're dealing with through what we call the proliferation security initiative, which is a group of nations that say, "We're not going to allow this country to proliferate.”
“The NP delegation also expressed concern at what it called a proliferation of human rights institutions with no co-ordination mechanisms.”
“The generation of new neurons, what we call proliferation, occurs prenatally during the second trimester," said Romanski, who was not involved in the study.”
“The Mungle furniture range is the product of a digital design technique that incorporates simple elements, which, in proliferation, are able to articulate more complex overall geometries.”
“Designed by the Greek designer Dimitrios Tsigos the Mungle Office Desk is the product of a digital design technique that incorporates simple elements, which, in proliferation, are able to articulate more complex overall geometries.”
“The proliferation is part of the nation's widespread move toward sustainable food production.”
“Yes dear, a legal treaty vis-a-vis nuclear proliferation is SUCH a SILLY thing.”
“Russia has a belief that the only way to react to nuclear weapons proliferation is to have significantly stronger forces, that would be able to blow an unacceptable damage to any party that will dare.”
“What's more, security experts report a big spike in proliferation of sophisticated banking trojans -- tools cyber thieves use to siphon cash from online bank accounts.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘proliferation’.
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SEDE - military policy and diplomacy
genocide, Euromed, build up, arms flow, armistice, truce, ally, military conflict, non-proliferation..., decommission, gun control, accept a ceasefir... and 268 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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Daily We
http://bostonreview.net/BR26.3/sunstein.php
proliferation, bear on, boon, feasible, dissent, salience, deliberate, conspicuous, balkanize, restrained, antecedently, opprobrium and 1 more...
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Nouns
a component, an aspect, an element, significant growth, transition, hiccups, labour, predecessor, delight, lawsuit, penchant, entrepreneurship and 23 more...
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Go over
mollify, obstinate, obviate, occlude, onerous, obscure, paragon, pedantic, perfunctory, placate, placid, prodigal and 364 more...
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magoosh1
aberration, aboveboard, abysmal, ace, affable, aghast, alacrity, ambiguous, ambivalent, ameliorate, amenable, amiable and 205 more...
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theory and history of art: terms and ...
phenomenological, nonphenomenological, kineticism, mechanizing, digitalizing, utations, trajectory, synthesized, spatio-temporal, proliferation, quantification, iterative and 118 more...
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Reading Vocab
ulterior, warrant, syllogism, precious, impiety, maroon, aigrette, batiste, topsy-turvy ago, midnight crush, cantankerous, slovenly and 180 more...
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five syllables
ontogenesis, phylogenesis, concatenation, androgenesis, extra textual, inexorably, spagyrically, apophenia, iatrochemist, monocotyloid, morphological, parthenogenic and 941 more...
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Out of Book Words
commiserate, equanimity, dulcet, cursory, diffident, profligate, egregious, precocious, dissemble, aggregate, efficacy, ingenuous and 100 more...
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quality words
This is a mix of new words I've read studying for the GRE verbal and words I use normally. I also check back on these words if I don't use them often enough.
ineffable, septuagenarian, sesquipedalian, argyle, coalescence, profundity, vivisepulture, defenestrate, concatenate, usurp, diatribe, veracious and 461 more...
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Vocabulary
Words I come across while reading.
talus, echelon, onanistic, cabochon, avocation, charnel, moue, portentous, prolixity, astringent, hoary, patina and 165 more...
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SAT Vocab
Redundant.
problematic, proclivity, prodigal, prodigious, prodigy, profane, profligate, profound, profusion, proliferation, prolific, prologue and 455 more...
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Consider the Lobster
By David Foster Wallace
percussive, discursive, lugubrious, docent, assiduously, berm, wag, bonmot, imbroglio, telegraph, fissile, rube and 220 more...
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strieale's Words
scientism, chronological, christophobia, subsurface, high culture, jeffersonian demo..., jacksonian democracy, incommensurable, rebuttal, discerning, disparate, anodyne and 156 more...
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amy's GRE 2012
gimmicks, kowtow, unpretentious, skeptical, cynical, somber, prevaricate, equivocate, requisite, embellish, impregnable, procrastinate and 307 more...
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