proliferation
English
Noun
(uncountable) The process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction.
(countable) The act of increasing or rising; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Mark Tran
, volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Denied an education by war
, passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
(countable) The result of building up; buildup, accretion.
(uncountable) The spread of biochemical, nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction to countries not originally involved in developing them.
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cancer
Noun
(en noun)
(medicine, oncology, disease) A disease in which the cells of a tissue undergo uncontrolled (and often rapid) proliferation.
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=(Edwin Black)
, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=1 citation
, passage=If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Snakes and ladders
, passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.}}
(figuratively) Something which spreads within something else, damaging the latter.
- {{quote-book, year=1999, author=Bruce Clifford Ross-Larson, title=Effective Writing, page=134 <q cite="http://books.google.com/books?id=_sI0V0w5124C&pg=PA134&lpg=PA134&source=bl&ots=R_MyVb9f0Z&sig=eiggQh1XsHHbKDAMU1hn5mWznko&hl=en&sa=X&ei=anMAUIq0LYnnqgGvtsmhBw&ved=0CEkQ6AEwAg
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, passage=Sierra Leone’s post-dictator problems are almost absurd in their breadth. It once exported rice; now it can’t feed itself. The life span of the average citizen is 39, the shortest in Africa. Unemployment stands at 87 percent and tuberculosis is spreading out of control. Corruption, brazen and ubiquitous, is a cancer on the economy.}}
Synonyms
* (disease) growth, malignancy, neoplasia
* (something which spreads) lichen
Hyponyms
* tumor
* leukaemia, leukemia
Derived terms
(types of cancer)
* bowel cancer
* breast cancer
* colon cancer
* leukemia
* testicular cancer
* lung cancer
* prostate cancer
* ovarian cancer
* skin cancer
* cervical cancer
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