the sudden increase in the number or amount of something; a large number of a particular thing 激增;增殖;增生;大量的事物 attempts to prevent cancer cell proliferation 防止癌细胞扩散的努力 a proliferation of personal computers 个人电脑的激增
Oxford Collocations DictionaryProliferation is used after these nouns:- cell
- weapon
Word Originmid 19th cent.: from French prolifération, from prolifère ‘proliferous, multiplying’.