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Perforation vs Proliferation - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between perforation and proliferation

is that perforation is the act of perforating or the state of being perforated while proliferation is proliferation, spreading.

perforation

English

Noun

(wikipedia perforation) (en noun)
  • the act of perforating or the state of being perforated
  • any opening in a solid object
  • (medicine) an abnormal opening in an organ, such as a rupture
  • a series of holes punched through something in order to assist in separating parts
  • (mathematics) that portion of a surface that remains after an open disk is removed from it

    • Derived terms

    * perforation gauge

    proliferation

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction.
  • (countable) The act of increasing or rising; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement.
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    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Denied an education by war , passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
  • (countable) The result of building up; buildup, accretion.
  • (uncountable) The spread of biochemical, nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction to countries not originally involved in developing them.