[ verb ]
■ become bigger or greater in amount
e.g.)
・The amount of work increased
→
increase
[ verb ]
■ cause to grow or increase rapidly
e.g.)
・We must not proliferate nuclear arms
→
proliferate
[ verb ]
■ grow rapidly
e.g.)
・Pizza parlors proliferate in this area
→
proliferate
[ noun ]
■ the act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope
→
enlargement
,
expansion
[ noun ]
■ the act of building up an accumulation
e.g.)
・I envied his rapid buildup of assets
・a military buildup in preparation for the invasion
→
buildup
[ noun ]
■ the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
→
generation
,
multiplication
,
propagation
[ noun ]
■ a growth in strength or number or importance
→
rise
[ noun ]
■ (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically
■ a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
e.g.)
・he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children
→
development
,
growing
,
growth
,
maturation
,
ontogenesis
,
ontogeny
[ noun ]
■ a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
e.g.)
・the increase in unemployment
・the growth of population
→
growth
,
increase
,
increment
[ noun ]
■ a multiplicative increase
e.g.)
・repeated copying leads to a multiplication of errors
・this multiplication of cells is a natural correlate of growth
→
multiplication
[ noun ]
■ growth by the rapid multiplication of parts
→
proliferation
[ noun ]
■ the process of generating offspring
→
reproduction
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