PROLIFERATION
Dictionary entry overview: What does proliferation mean?
• PROLIFERATION (noun)
The noun PROLIFERATION has 2 senses:
1. growth by the rapid multiplication of parts
2. a rapid increase in number (especially a rapid increase in the number of deadly weapons)
Familiarity information: PROLIFERATION used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PROLIFERATION (noun)
Meaning:
Growth by the rapid multiplication of parts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("proliferation" is a kind of...):
development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)
Meaning:
A rapid increase in number (especially a rapid increase in the number of deadly weapons)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Context example:
the proliferation of nuclear weapons
Hypernyms ("proliferation" is a kind of...):
growth; increase; increment (a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important)
Antonym:
non-proliferation; nonproliferation (the prevention of something increasing or spreading (especially the prevention of an increase in the number of countries possessing nuclear weapons))
