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Meaning:

Noun:

  • countable The act of increasing or rising; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement.
  • countable The result of building up; buildup, accretion.
  • uncountable The process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction.
  • uncountable The spread of biochemical, nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction to countries not originally involved in developing them.

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