proliferation

proliferate | American Dictionary

proliferate
verb[ I ]
us/prəˈlɪf·əˌreɪt/
to increase greatly in number or amount, usually quickly:
Amusement and theme parks are proliferating across the country.

proliferation

noun[ U ]us/prəˌlɪf·əˈreɪ·ʃən/
The proliferation of cell phones has changed how we communicate.

Examples of proliferate

proliferate
This would potentially facilitate competition between microbes and reduce the risk of a small number of pathogens dominating and, therefore, proliferating.
However, reactive astrocytes did not proliferate, therefore exhibiting only a partial gliosis.
After that, both accusations and confessions proliferated at a rapid rate.
Still, venereal disease, although undoubtedly commonplace, may not have proliferated as widely as nationalists had led the public to believe.
A major problem with this approach is that it proliferates lexical entries, rendering the lexicon unconstrained.
Again, conjoined constraints would have to be proliferated to account for all of the acceptable trade-offs in the model of formant transitions.
Such theories have proved to be circular - "pleasures," "needs," and "drives" proliferated about as fast as the behaviors they were supposed to explain.
During this latter stage, differentiation is apparently blocked, and the clonal, nonfunctional, proliferating blast cells accumulate to cause a clinical disease similar to acute leukaemia.
These are able to change their bindings and can either proliferate or die according to the bindings they form.
The secretory apparatus of the aleurone then proliferates, supporting increased hydrolase synthesis and secretion to degrade the starchy endosperm.
But what proliferates is a trivialized version of phenomenology, which often consists of little more than name-dropping and common-sense statements.
The proliferating response of glia to nerve injury might be different depending on the lesion site.
Consider, for example, the growth of a tumour that initially comprises only proliferating cells.
Following a discussion of the nature and analytical categorisations of proliferating rural activities, four opposing tensions are examined.
During normal ageing, cells that proliferate vigorously throughout adult life may accumulate chromosomal aberrations that lead to cell transformation and cell death.
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