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Propagation definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PROPAGA'TION, n. [L.propagatio.]
1. The act of propagating; the continuance or multiplication of the kind by generation or successive production; as the propagation of animals or plants.
There is not in nature any spontaneous generation, but all come by propagation.
2. The spreading or extension of any thing; as the propagation of sound or of reports.
3. The spreading of any thing by planting and establishing in places before destitute; as the propagation of the gospel among pagans.
4. A forward or promotion.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions [syn: propagation, extension]
2: the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production [syn: generation, multiplication, propagation]
3: the movement of a wave through a medium

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 15th century the act or action of propagating: as a. increase (as of a kind of organism) in numbers b. the spreading of something (as a belief) abroad or into new regions c. enlargement or extension (as of a crack) in a solid body

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Propagation Prop`a*ga"tion, n. [L. propagatio: cf. F. propagation.] 1. The act of propagating; continuance or multiplication of the kind by generation or successive production; as, the propagation of animals or plants. There is not in nature any spontaneous generation, but all come by propagation. --Ray. 2. The spreading abroad, or extension, of anything; diffusion; dissemination; as, the propagation of sound; the propagation of the gospel. --Bacon.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see propagate

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Multiplication, increase, continuance. 2. Dissemination, diffusion, extension, enlargement, circulation. 3. Generation, procreation, breeding, production.

Moby Thesaurus

airing, attenuation, bandying, begetting, book, breeding, broadcast, broadcasting, bruiting, bruiting about, circulation, circumfusion, crossbreeding, diffraction, diffusion, dilution, dispensation, dispersal, dispersion, display, dissemination, dissipation, dissogeny, distribution, divergence, endogamy, engenderment, evaporation, evulgation, expansion, fragmentation, generation, inbreeding, issuance, issue, linebreeding, multiplication, outbreeding, peppering, periodical, printing, procreation, proliferation, promulgation, publication, publishing, radiation, scattering, scatterment, shotgun pattern, sowing, spattering, splay, spread, spreading, spreading abroad, sprinkling, strewing, telecasting, ventilation, volatilization, xenogamy