title: Proliferation
text: # 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
  