Proliferation Definition

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(uncountable) The process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction.

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(countable) The act of increasing or rising; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement.

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(countable) The result of building up; buildup, accretion.

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(uncountable) The spread of biochemical, nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction to countries not originally involved in developing them.

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Other Word Forms of Proliferation

Noun

Singular:
proliferation
Plural:
proliferations

Origin of Proliferation

Proliferation Sentence Examples

  • It may also take place where rapid proliferation of the cell is going on, as in the budding of the Yeast plant.

  • This phenomenon is known as proliferation of the floral axis.

  • If the white cells be required, as in local suppurating abscess, general septicaemia, acute pneumonia, &c., there is an active proliferation of the myelocytes to form the polymorpho-nuclear leucocytes, so that we have in this condition a leucoblastic transformation of the fatty marrow.

  • The ovary and testes are heaped-up masses of red or yellow cells due to a proliferation of the cells lining the coelom.

  • In some cases the inner layer is formed not by invagination but by proliferation or by de lamination.

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Words Starting With

PPRPRO

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NONION

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