proliferation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French proliférer
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ation
Middle French -ation
French -ation
French proliférationbor.
English proliferation
Borrowed from French prolifération.
Inflected forms:
form: proliferations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The act of increasing, rising, or proliferating; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools[…]as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.
Internationally, the shipping container had already proven its worth, and by the early 1960s battles were being fought over what their standardised dimensions would be (their expected proliferation was not in question).
gloss: The act of increasing, rising, or proliferating; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: ... to combat proliferation by assisting them in gaining and assuring greater control over their dual-use equipment and technology. States that gain weapons of mass destruction are able to pose a significant military threat to the[…]
[Efforts] to fight proliferation will require more than just new targets for collection; intelligence analysis will also have to change. In particular, to support policymakers looking for opportunities to disrupt, slow, or stop a[…]
gloss: The result of building up; buildup, accretion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Derived words: alloproliferation
angioproliferation
antiproliferation
autoproliferation
counterproliferation
endoproliferation
fibroproliferation
horizontal proliferation
hyperproliferation
hypoproliferation
immunoproliferation
lymphoproliferation
malproliferation
myeloproliferation
neuroproliferation
non-proliferation
nonproliferation
osteoproliferation
overproliferation
proliferate
proliferational
proliferation therapy
prolotherapy
reproliferation
underproliferation
vasoproliferation
vertical proliferation
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: нарастване
roman: narastvane
lang: Czech
word: navyšování
lang: Czech
word: rozšiřování
lang: Czech
word: zvětšování
lang: Dutch
word: toename
lang: Dutch
word: vergroting
lang: Dutch
word: versterking
lang: Dutch
word: woekering
lang: Finnish
word: lisääntyminen
lang: German
word: Zunahme
lang: German
word: Verstärkung
lang: German
word: Vergrößerung
lang: German
word: Wucherung
lang: Greek
word: πολλαπλασιασμός
roman: pollaplasiasmós
lang: Greek
word: αύξηση
roman: áfxisi
lang: Greek
word: πλήθυνση
roman: plíthynsi
lang: Italian
word: proliferazione
lang: Russian
word: увеличе́ние
roman: uveličénije
lang: Russian
word: рост
roman: rost
lang: Russian
word: пролифера́ция
roman: proliferácija
lang: Slovene
word: večanje
lang: Slovene
word: dviganje
lang: Slovene
word: dviganje
lang: Slovene
word: širjenje