Usually means: Rapid increase or spread of something.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. proliferation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. proliferation: Merriam-Webster
  3. proliferation, proliferation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. proliferation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. proliferation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Proliferation, proliferation: Wordnik
  7. proliferation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. proliferation: Wiktionary
  9. proliferation: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. proliferation: Dictionary.com
  11. proliferation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. proliferation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Proliferation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Proliferation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. proliferation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. proliferation: Rhymezone
  17. Proliferation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. proliferation: FreeDictionary.org
  19. proliferation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. proliferation, proliferation (nuclear weapons): TheFreeDictionary.com

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  2. proliferation: Legal dictionary

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. proliferation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  5. Proliferation: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  6. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  7. proliferation: Medical dictionary
  8. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Proliferation: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Proliferation: Urban Dictionary

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  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See proliferate as well.)

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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