Proliferation
# 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
* 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
