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Etymology

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Internationalism, borrowed from Dutch proliferatie (proliferation), from French prolifération.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pro.li.fə.ˈra.si/
  • Rhymes: -si
  • Hyphenation: pro‧li‧fê‧ra‧si

Noun

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prolifêrasi (plural proliferasi-proliferasi, first-person possessive proliferasiku, second-person possessive proliferasimu, third-person possessive proliferasinya)

  1. proliferation
    1. (biology, uncountable) the process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction.
      Synonym: pemproliferatan (Standard Malay)
    2. (politics, uncountable) the spread of biochemical, nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction to countries not originally involved in developing them.
      Synonyms: percambahan, pertambahan (Standard Malay)

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