proliferation

About 7.71 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction.
2. noun The act of increasing, rising, or proliferating; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement. In particular, the spread (proliferating) of biochemical, nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction to countries not originally involved in developing them.
3. noun In particular, the spread (proliferating) of biochemical, nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction to countries not originally involved in developing them.
4. noun The result of building up; buildup, accretion.

Similar words

breeding reproduction infestation mushrooming bloom expansion flooding inundation multiplicity spillover

Often followed by

of and in treaty is by was or to

Word family

proliferate proliferated proliferates proliferating proliferations proliferative