proliferation

Plural: proliferations

Noun

• growth by the rapid multiplication of parts
• a rapid increase in number (especially a rapid increase in the number of deadly weapons)
  • "the proliferation of nuclear weapons"
• The process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction.
• The act of increasing, rising, or proliferating; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement.
• The act of increasing, rising, or proliferating; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement.
• In paticular, the spread (proliferating) of biochemical, nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction to countries not originally involved in developing them.
• The result of building up; buildup, accretion.

Antonyms

non-proliferation, nonproliferation