<def-root>The number of entities that make up the <fen>Set</fen> changes from an <fen>Initial_number</fen> to a <fen>Final_number</fen>. Alternatively, the situation can be described in terms of an <fen>Initial_state</fen> and a <fen>Final_state</fen>. In some cases the <fen>Attribute</fen> (i.e., number) or <fen>Difference</fen> in number may be mentioned.
<ex> How has the <t>proliferation</t> <fex name="Set">of cellular telephones</fex> affected your amateur mobile operation? <fex name="inis">INI</fex> <fex name="finis">INI</fex></ex>
<ex><fex name="Set">The number of rural poor</fex> has <t>dwindled</t> <fex name="inis">from some 250 million</fex> <fex name="finis">to 26 million</fex>.</ex>
<ex><fex name="Set">Problems in the banking industry</fex> <t>proliferated</t> <fex name="Degree">dramatically</fex> <fex name="Time">in the 1980s</fex>.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The <fen>Attribute</fen> is the number of entities that make up the <fen>Set</fen>.
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<def-root>The group of entities, possibly construed as a collective, whose number changes.
<ex><fex name="set">The union's membership</fex> has <t>dwindled</t> from 1.5 million in 1979 to a little more than 600000 today.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The number of entities by which the <fen>Set</fen> increases or decreases.
<ex>Jaffna's student population has <t>dwindled</t> <fex name="Diff">by more than a hundred</fex>.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>Any expression that gives information about points on the number scale that the <fen>Set</fen> traverses between the starting and ending point of its movement.
<ex>The top three pulled away from the pack as the laps <t>dwindled</t> <fex name="Path">down</fex>.</ex>
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<def-root>The number of entities in the <fen>Set</fen> afterwards.
<ex>Church of England baptisms have <t>dwindled</t> from 365000 in 1940 <fex name="val2">to 150000 in 1995</fex>.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The initial number of entities in the <fen>Set</fen>.
<ex>The number of Medline searches has greatly <t>proliferated</t> <fex name="val1">from 7 million</fex> to 120 million.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The rate of change of the value.
<ex>Those systems proved popular, and they <fex name="Speed">quickly</fex> <t>proliferated</t>.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The <fen>Correlated_variable</fen> is an ordered progression of positions or values (most often a sequence of spatial locations) that the (dependent) <fen>Attribute</fen> is measured against. The <fen>Correlated_variable</fen> is metaphorically mapped onto the progression of time, and in the absence of this FE, changes in the number in the <fen>Set</fen>are simply measured against (forward-directional) time.
<ex>Mushrooms and deep moss <t>proliferate</t> <fex name="cor">as you get deeper into the trail</fex>.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>Any description of the event (or state) which is not covered by more specific FEs, secondary effects (<ment>quietly</ment>, <ment>loudly</ment>), and general descriptions comparing events (<ment>the same way</ment>). </def-root>
<def-root><fen>Degree</fen> to which event occurs.
<ex>Our supply had <fex name="Degr">completely</fex> <t>dwindled</t> with our war fatalities and we needed a small supply on hand.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The <fen>Circumstances</fen> under which the proliferation takes place.
<ex>Referrals <t>multiply</t> <fex name="cir">when patients know you care</fex>. </ex></def-root>
<def-root>The <fen>Group</fen> within which the number of entities in the <fen>Set</fen> changes in the specified way.
<ex>During the last third of the nineteenth century, fraternal orders, featuring reform and ritual, <t>proliferated</t> <fex name="Grp">among the urban middle classes</fex>.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The <fen>Time</fen> is the time-frame in which the change in number occurs.
<ex>Oh, my aching software: Worms and viruses <t>proliferated</t> <fex name="Time">in 2003</fex>.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The length of time over which the change takes place.
<ex>Cellular phone and paging device ownership by adolescents has <t>proliferated</t> <fex name="Dur">over the past years</fex>.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The value, location, or state-of-affairs that corresponds to the <fen>Initial_number</fen> of entities in the <fen>Set</fen>.
<ex><fex name="cor1">From California</fex> to Massachusetts, these predators <t>proliferate</t>
uncontrollably and unsustainably.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The value, location, or state-of-affairs that corresponds to the <fen>Final_number</fen> in the <fen>Set</fen>.
<ex>From California <fex name="cor2">to Massachusetts</fex>, these predators <t>proliferate</t>
uncontrollably and unsustainably.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>A location where the <fen>Set</fen> changes in number.</def-root>
<def-root>A description that presents the <fen>Set</fen>'s state before the change in the number of entities making it up as an independent predication.
<ex>The human population has <t>dwindled</t> <fex name="inis">from being world dominators</fex> to simple survivors.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>A description that presents the <fen>Set</fen>'s state after the change in the <fen>Attribute</fen>'s value as an independent predication.
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Change_position_on_a_scale
COD: reproduce rapidly; increase rapidly in number.
FN: increase in number or quantity
FN: diminish to near or total disappearance
COD: rapid reproduction or increase in numbers.
COD: the prevention of an increase or spread of something, especially possession of nuclear weapons.