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Proliferation vs Differentiation - What's the difference?

proliferation | differentiation |

As nouns the difference between proliferation and differentiation

is that proliferation is the process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction while differentiation is the act of differentiating.

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.
  • differentiation

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The act of differentiating.
  • The act of distinguishing or describing a thing, by giving its different, or specific difference; exact definition or determination.
  • The gradual formation or production of organs or parts by a process of evolution or development, as when the seed develops the root and the stem, the initial stem develops the leaf, branches, and flower buds; or in animal life, when the germ evolves the digestive and other organs and members, or when the animals as they advance in organization acquire special organs for specific purposes.
  • (geology) The process of separation of cooling magma into various rock types.
  • (calculus) The process of determining the derived function of a function.
  • Derived terms

    * cellular differentiation * evolutionary differentiation * planetary differentiation