Usually means: Rapid increase or spread of something.
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  1. proliferation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. proliferation, proliferation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. proliferation: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. proliferation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  11. proliferation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Proliferation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  14. proliferation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  17. proliferation: Free Dictionary
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  19. proliferation, proliferation (nuclear weapons): Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Proliferation: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

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  1. Proliferation: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (uncountable) The process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction.
noun:  (countable) The act of increasing or rising; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement.
noun:  (countable) The result of building up; buildup, accretion.
noun:  (uncountable) The spread of biochemical, nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction to countries not originally involved in developing them.

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