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What does Proliferation mean?

1: to grow by rapid production of new parts, cells, buds, or offspring. 2: to increase in number as if by proliferating: multiply. transitive verb. 1: to cause to grow by proliferating.

What is an example of proliferation?

Proliferation is a rapid increase in numbers or rapid growth. When a country is quickly building up more weapons including nuclear weapons, this is an example of nuclear proliferation. If you start out with one rabbit and within a month you end up with five, this is an example of proliferation of rabbits.

What is a proliferation in medical terms?

Proliferation is the growth of tissue cells. In many diseases, it is abnormal.

What is another word for proliferate?

What is another word for proliferate?

multiply	mushroom
spread	augment
develop	extend
amplify	boost
intensify	magnify

How do you use the word proliferation?

a rapid increase in number (especially a rapid increase in the number of deadly weapons). (1) Nuclear proliferation has returned to centre stage in international affairs. (2) The past two years have seen the proliferation of TV channels. (3) Where will this proliferation of athletics end?

What does Proliferation mean in politics?

Proliferation describes growth by the rapid multiplication of parts. In its politico-military context, proliferation most commonly refers to nuclear weapons, and sometimes covers all weapons of mass destruction—biological, chemical, and radiological as well as nuclear.

What does proliferation financing mean?

The FATF defines proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) as the transfer and export of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, their means of delivery and related materials. The issue of proliferation received international attention for several years.

What is the meaning of proliferation of arms?

Arms Proliferation. The uncontrolled accumulation and spread of all categories of weapons have a devastating humanitarian impact and strategically destabilising consequences. The Arms Proliferation Cluster aims to promote innovative, cooperative and rules-based responses to this phenomenon.

What does non proliferation mean?

noun. the action or practice of curbing or controlling an excessive, rapid spread: nonproliferation of nuclear weapons. failure or refusal to proliferate, as in budding or cell division.

How do you use proliferation in a sentence?

Proliferation sentence example

1. It may also take place where rapid proliferation of the cell is going on, as in the budding of the Yeast plant.
2. This phenomenon is known as proliferation of the floral axis.

What is the meaning of nuclear proliferation?

Nuclear proliferation, the spread of nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons technology, or fissile material to countries that do not already possess them. The term is also used to refer to the possible acquisition of nuclear weapons by terrorist organizations or other armed groups.

Does prolific mean?

1: producing young or fruit especially freely: fruitful. 2 archaic: causing abundant growth, generation, or reproduction. 3: marked by abundant inventiveness or productivity a prolific composer.

What is the opposite of proliferation?

Antonyms. nonproliferation decrease non-proliferation decrement.

What dwindle means?

intransitive verb.: to become steadily less: shrink Their savings dwindled to nothing. a dwindling population.

What part of speech is proliferate?

proliferate

part of speech:	intransitive verb
part of speech:	transitive verb
definition:	to cause the rapid growth or spread of. similar words: augment, breed, cultivate, expand, increase, multiply, propagate, spawn
related words:	breed, increase
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