PROLIFERATION

proliferation

Noun

  1. The process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction.
  2. The act of increasing or rising; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement.
  3. The result of building up; buildup, accretion.
  4. The spread of biochemical, nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction to countries not originally involved in developing them.


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