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propagate
Found in thesaurus: go, travel, transmit, transfer, transport, spread, bare, publicize, treat, reproduce, multiply
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propagate
v.
procreate, generate, reproduce; scatter, disseminate; multiply, proliferate, increase; spread, extend
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Propagation
Propagation can refer to:
- Reproduction, and other forms of multiplication or increase
- Plant propagation, the production of more plants by seeds, cuttings, grafting or other methods
- Propagation of schema, in artificial reproduction
- Wave propagation, The motion of a wave throughout a medium or the transfer of its energy
- Crack propagation, The motion of the crack tip or the crack front during the fracture of materials
- Radio propagation, the application of wave propagation to radio communications
- Software propagation, the distribution of free software in a manner explicitly permitted under the applicable license
- Propaganda
- "Propagation", a song by Lower Dens from the album Nootropics
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propagate
Verb
1. transmit from one generation to the next; "propagate these characteristics"
(hypernym) pass on
(derivation) generation, multiplication, propagation
2. travel through the air; "sound and light propagate in this medium"
(hypernym) travel, go, move, locomote
(derivation) propagation
3. transmit; "propagate sound or light through air"
(hypernym) transmit, transfer, transport, channel, channelize, channelise
(derivation) propagation
4. become distributed or widespread; "the infection spread"; "Optimism spread among the population"
(synonym) spread
(hypernym) move
(hyponym) catch
5. transmit or cause to broaden or spread; "This great civilization was propagated throughout the land"
(hypernym) spread, distribute
(derivation) propagation, extension
6. cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news"
(synonym) circulate, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse, pass around
(hypernym) publicize, publicise, air, bare
(hyponym) sow, sough
(cause) go around, spread, circulate
(verb-group) go around, spread, circulate
(derivation) propagation, extension
7. cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering
(hypernym) process, treat
(hyponym) inoculate
(derivation) generation, multiplication, propagation
(classification) plant, flora, plant life
8. multiply sexually or asexually
(hypernym) reproduce, procreate, multiply
(hyponym) vegetate
(derivation) generation, multiplication, propagation
(classification) biology, biological science
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propagare
v.
propagate, spread, scatter
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propagar
v.
spread; propagate
propagarse
v.
propagate; spread; permeate
