proliferation

English

Etymology

From proliferate +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pɹəˌlɪfəˈɹeɪʃən/, SAMPA: /pr@%lIf@"reIS@n/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

proliferation (countable and uncountable; plural proliferations)

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

Translations

the process by which an organism produces others of its kind

Finnish: lisääntyminen (fi) German: Sprossung (de) f., Knospung (de) f. Italian: proliferazione (it) f.

Polish: rozprzestrzenienie (pl) n. Serbo-Croatian: proliferácija (sh), пролифера́ција (sh) Slovene: razmnoževanje (sl) n.

the act of increasing or rising

Finnish: lisääntyminen (fi) German: Zunahme (de) f., Verstärkung (de) f., Vergrößerung (de) f.

Italian: proliferazione (it) f. Slovene: večanje (sl) n., dviganje (sl) f., dviganje (sl) n., širjenje (sl) n.

the result of building up

the spread of weapons of mass destruction

German: Verbreitung (de) f.