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What does proliferation mean?

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Noun
  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.
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Intimai proliferation and adventitial thickening may further reduce the cross-sectional area of the pulmonary vascular bed.
These receptors are involved in the regulation of metabolism, embryogenesis, tissue regeneration, and cell proliferation.
His aim is to present the administration as a responsible international player, concerned not to be the engine of proliferation.
Both the pigs and the roads have contributed to the proliferation of a number of weedy species.
Yet the level of political interest sagged in inverse relation to the proliferation of candidates.
That in itself is proliferation, and it is linked to the aggressive doctrine of regime change.

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