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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
proliferation
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cellular
▪ This could result from bile acid mediated effects on cellular proliferation through several possible pathways as already discussed.
▪ Both are characterised by a focal or multifocal pattern of distribution, abnormal cellular proliferation, and a genetic component.
▪ Conversely, a low fibre diet did not lead to changes in cellular proliferation which might be associated with mucosal instability.
mucosal
▪ We have previously reported how mucosal proliferation may be influenced by proximity to a tumour.
▪ Discussion Our results are consistent with observations in man that mucosal proliferation decreases with distance from the ileocaecal valve to the rectum.
▪ Limited studies have been published on human gastric mucosal cell proliferation and a detailed overview of such work has been published.
▪ Our data are also consistent with observations in man that mucosal proliferation is increased in patients with large adenomas or cancer.
▪ The study of gastric mucosal proliferation may have important clinical applications.
nuclear
▪ It has to harry the government to take a less relaxed view on international nuclear proliferation.
▪ Suddenly nuclear proliferation became a high-priority concern in Washington.
▪ Under nuclear proliferation safeguards, plutonium shipments have to be accompanied by armed vessels.
▪ We have to face the fact that there is a bigger risk of nuclear proliferation at present than the world has ever known.
▪ Lugar has devoted most of his ad time and speeches to foreign policy, particularly the threat of nuclear proliferation.
▪ The legislation stated that the plant posed serious environmental hazards and increased the risk of nuclear proliferation.
▪ Discussions of future reactor safety should revolve about two critical issues: nuclear waste disposal and nuclear weapons proliferation.
■ NOUN
cell
▪ This indicates that the stimulation of cell proliferation may not be the only factor in ulcer healing by sucralfate.
▪ Future advances in technology may disclose other, more sensitive markers of cell proliferation whose predictive accuracy is greater.
▪ Supplementary dietary calcium has been shown in some studies to reduce colonic cell proliferation in man.
▪ It is thought to reflect defective cell proliferation control and delayed onset of normal differentiation.
▪ Proliferating cell nuclear antigen immunohistochemical technique although a promising method of assessing cell proliferation has yet to be fully standardised.
▪ A similar paradox pertains in the relationship between dietary fibre, colonic cell proliferation, and experimental carcinogenesis.
▪ Oat bran has been shown to increase tumourigenesis yet it does not effect colonic cell proliferation.
▪ Several theories of the factors causing smooth muscle cell proliferation have been made.
■ VERB
lead
▪ For it is easy to think of other examples where the lexical choice will lead to a further proliferation of senses.
▪ This led to a proliferation of market-dominating, IBM-compatible machines and shrinking market share for Apple.
prevent
▪ CsA prevents T-cell proliferation by blocking the calcium-activated pathway leading to interleukin-2 transcription.
▪ We will in addition work for a global ban on chemical and biological weapons and stronger controls to prevent proliferation of ballistic missiles.
▪ Thus, it remains essential to maintain adequate defences against such dictators and to prevent the further proliferation of nuclear arms.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Future advances in technology may disclose other, more sensitive markers of cell proliferation whose predictive accuracy is greater.
▪ Malignant melanoma of the skin is caused by cancerous proliferation of melanocytes.
▪ Neither in Feyerabend's image of theory proliferation nor in Kuhn's paradigm shifts is there any simple model of progress.
▪ Shortening product life cycles and rapid product proliferation mean that investment in innovation is critical in global competition.
▪ The mean proliferation indices within compartments were nearly identical for both assays.
▪ This indicates that the stimulation of cell proliferation may not be the only factor in ulcer healing by sucralfate.
▪ This led to a proliferation of market-dominating, IBM-compatible machines and shrinking market share for Apple.
▪ Where will this proliferation of athletics end?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Proliferation

Proliferation \Pro*lif`er*a"tion\, n.

  1. (Biol.) The continuous development of cells in tissue formation; cell formation.
    --Virchow.

  2. (Zo["o]l.) The production of numerous zooids by budding, especially when buds arise from other buds in succession.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
proliferation

1859, "formation or development of cells," from French prolifération, from prolifère "producing offspring," from Latin proles "offspring" (see prolific) + ferre "to bear" (see infer). Meaning "enlargement, extension, increase" is from 1920; especially of nuclear weapons (1966).

Wiktionary
proliferation

n. 1 (context uncountable English) The process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction. 2 (context countable English) The act of increasing or rising; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement.

WordNet
proliferation
  1. n. growth by the rapid multiplication of parts

  2. a rapid increase in number (especially a rapid increase in the number of deadly weapons); "the proliferation of nuclear weapons" [ant: nonproliferation, nonproliferation]

Wikipedia
Proliferation

Proliferation may refer to:

Proliferation (album)

Proliferation is the debut album by People, Places & Things, a quartet led by American jazz drummer Mike Reed featuring saxophonists Greg Ward and Tim Haldeman, and bassist Jason Roebke. It was recorded in 2007 and released on 482 Music. Reed formed the band to explore the Chicago hard-bop scene from 1954-1960.

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.