Rapid increase in numbers

Usage examples of proliferation.

Effect of purified allicin, the major ingredient of freshly crushed garlic, on cancer cell proliferation.

Such microcircuits seem to increase in abundance in a manner consistent with our usual notions about the complexity of an animal, reaching their greatest proliferation in both absolute and relative terms in human beings.

But this class is, due to the unregulated proliferation of semi-fictional genealogies, exactly congruent to almost the entire population of Averidan.

Just the day before, the United Nations had voted to permanently extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which had been the bedrock of our efforts to contain the proliferation of nuclear weapons for more than twenty-five years.

In home remote year the historians will record that Twentieth Century America attempted the astonishing blunder of changing its culture to fit automobiles instead of people, putting a skin of concrete and asphalt over millions of acres of arable land, rotting the hearts of their cities, so encouraging the proliferation of murderous, high-speed junk that when finally the invention of the Transporlon rendered the auto obsolete, it took twenty years and half a trillion dollars to obliterate the ugliness of all the years of madness, and rebuild the supercities in a manner to dignify the human instead of his toys.

The proliferation of formats of digital content has made it necessary to develop a standard for archiving Internet objects.

Early brain development in the foetus and newborn is itself associated first with a massive proliferation of cells, and then by a steady drop in number, but the space once occupied by the lost cells is taken up by an increase in the branching and synaptic connections made by those that remain.

Even those few sounds were muted by the proliferation of fronds, making the sounds seem eerily distant.

This almost immediate proliferation of White Castle imitators was the beginning of the massive fast-food industry, which today ranks among the largest segments of the American economy.

W9P3, the Missile Proliferation section of W Group, the Global Issues and Weapons Group.

Soviet Union created a need for exotic languages, the proliferation of low-cost, complex encryption systems and fast computers has forced NSA to search for more mathematicians whom they can convert to codebreakers.

Such microcircuits seem to increase in abundance in a manner consistent with our usual notions about the complexity of an animal, reaching their greatest proliferation in both absolute and relative terms in human beings.

Tragically, the overconsumption by the industrialized world, where scientific materialism is most dominant, together with its massive proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, is endangering our very survival as a species, which scientific materialism presents as the central driving force of life itself.

The restaurant industry as a whole expanded around the turn of the century, with the greatest proliferation of restaurants in the urban ethnic enclaves.

The proliferation of cable television channels, cheap long-distance telephone calls, fax machines, computer bulletin boards and networks, inexpensive computer self-publishing and surviving instances of the traditional liberal arts university curriculum are trends that might work in the opposite direction.