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
  • Counter-proliferation, efforts to stop weapon proliferation

Computer science

  • License proliferation, a problem caused by incompatible software licenses
  • Data proliferation, the challenge of dealing with large amounts 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

Other uses

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

See also