The phrase "proliferation of terms" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the rapid increase or spread of specific vocabulary or terminology within a particular field or context.
Example: "The proliferation of terms in the tech industry can make it challenging for newcomers to keep up with the latest jargon."
Alternatives: "increase in terminology" or "expansion of vocabulary".
Proliferation of terms has perhaps contributed more to mystification than to clarification of the problems involved.
However, to compensate for the lack of clarity and the proliferation of terms, more and more studies use "endophenotypes" that is to say; they are trying to "break up" the various forms of antisocial behaviors into stable phenotypes in order to refine the diagnosis.
For an axiomatic theory, though, this proliferation of terms is exactly what we want.
Despite the proliferation of terms, no system has emerged from them, and none of the terms listed in Table 1 has gained primacy or currency in the literature.
Transdisciplinarity is not simply another of the proliferation of terms for multidisciplinarity, but rather points to the transgressive character of knowledge generation (Nowotny et al. 2001) that there is a co-evolution or co-production (Callon et al. 1992; Callon 1999, p. 69; Jasanoff 2004, p. 70; Geels 2005) of knowledge that transgresses disciplinary boundaries.
To do otherwise is to risk a proliferation of new terms for what is essentially the same process.
Borrowed money allowed investors to fake "alpha", or above-market returns, says Benn Steil of the Council on Foreign Relations.The agony was compounded by the proliferation of short-term debt to support illiquid long-term assets, much of it issued beneath the regulatory radar in highly leveraged "shadow" banks, such as structured investment vehicles.
In ethos, El Quinto Pino, like its progenitor, runs counter to the recent tapas growth spurt, which has entailed both a proliferation of the term (now often used to refer to any kind of shared plates) and the expansion of portion size, to the point where four or five dishes between a pair don't merely satiate but stuff.
But the creation of Diet Pepsi, and Diet Coke in the early 1980s, have not led to the proliferation of the term "diet" across lower-calorie food and drinks.
This partisan divide is the driving force behind the proliferation of short-term "fixes" to which Congress has become addicted, resulting in a byzantine tax code that challenges even the most savvy tax attorneys and accountants.
In the mouse model of AML, C-terminal C/EBPα mutations increase the proliferation of long-term hematopoietic stem cells (LT-HSC) whereas N-terminal C/EBPα mutations allow formation of leukemia initiating cells [ 21].
