Proliferation

Proliferation may refer to:

Weapons

• Nuclear proliferation, the spread of nuclear weapons, material, and technology
• Chemical weapon proliferation, the spread of chemical weapons, material, and technology
• Missile proliferation, the spread of long range heavy payload missiles
• Small arms proliferation, the spread of small weapons

Computer science

• License proliferation, a problem caused by incompatible FOSS software licenses
• Data proliferation, the ever-accelerating production of data

Medicine and biology

• Cell proliferation, cell growth and division
• Proliferation, a phase of wound healing
• Atypical small acinar proliferation, a concept in urologic pathology
• Intravenous atypical vascular proliferation, a skin condition
• Massive periretinal proliferation, a disease of the eye

Music

• Proliferation (album), a 2008 album by Mike Reed's People, Places & Things

Efforts against proliferation

• Antiproliferation or anti-proliferation: inhibiting cell multiplication; also efforts to slow, stop, or prevent the spread of weapons (nuclear, chemical, biological weapons, missiles) and technology, small arms, illicit drugs
• Counterproliferation or counter-proliferation: efforts to slow, stop, or prevent the spread of weapons (nuclear, chemical, biological weapons, missiles) and technology, small arms, illicit drugs

Other uses

• Conceptual proliferation, a concept in Buddhism
• Product proliferation, an organization's marketing of many variations of the same product

See also

• All pages with titles containing Proliferation