Crossword clues for propagation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Propagation \Prop`a*ga"tion\, n. [L. propagatio: cf. F. propagation.]
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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. The spreading abroad, or extension, of anything; diffusion; dissemination; as, the propagation of sound; the propagation of the gospel.
--Bacon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Old French propagacion "offshoot, offspring" (13c.) and directly from Latin propagationem (nominative propagatio) "a propagation, extension, enlargement," noun of action from past participle stem of propagare "set forward, extend, spread, increase; multiply plants by layers, breed," from propago (genitive propaginis) "that which propagates, offspring," from pro- "forth" (see pro-) + *pag-, root of pangere "to fasten" (see pact).
Wiktionary
n. 1 the multiplication or natural increase in a population 2 the dissemination of something to a larger area or greater number 3 (context physics English) the act of propagating, especially the movement of a wave 4 (context genetics English) the elongation part of transcription 5 (context religion English) winning new converts 6 some degree of success in the spread of propaganda
WordNet
n. the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions [syn: extension]
the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production [syn: generation, multiplication]
the movement of a wave through a medium
Wikipedia
Propagation can refer to:
- Propagation delay, the delay of an electrical signal
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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
Propagation (1994) is an album by the American ambient musician Robert Rich. This album is an expression of Rich’s interest in biology and is a tribute to the proliferation of organic life in all its forms. It features a complex range of world music influences, just tunings and guest performers, similar to Rainforest (1989).
Usage examples of "propagation".
But the distortions seemed stronger to Pirius this time, their crowding propagation somehow more urgent.
The extent and boundaries of their respective dioceses had been variously and accidentally decided by the zeal and success of the first missionaries, by the wishes of the people, and by the propagation of the gospel.
Christian missionaries, without approaching the person or the palace of the monarch, successfully labored in the propagation of the gospel.
These Barbarian proselytes displayed an ardent and successful zeal in the propagation of the faith.
But I have reviewed, with diligence and pleasure, the objects of ecclesiastical history, by which the decline and fall of the Roman empire were materially affected, the propagation of Christianity, the constitution of the Catholic church, the ruin of Paganism, and the sects that arose from the mysterious controversies concerning the Trinity and incarnation.
It is not the propagation, but the permanency, of his religion, that deserves our wonder: the same pure and perfect impression which he engraved at Mecca and Medina, is preserved, after the revolutions of twelve centuries, by the Indian, the African, and the Turkish proselytes of the Koran.
Neither Dshingis nor his son and successor Oegodah had, on account of their continual wars, much leisure for the propagation of the religion of the Lama.
She lingered in the propagation area, studying the progress of seedlings and cuttings, the type of stock plants, and their health.
In her propagation house, she had a full table covered with seed trays.
Then, when the last had germinated, bloomed, and seeded, Brassey House would transform the art of gardening, the world over, by announcing the propagation and sale of thousands of new species of flowers, the humblest of them fit to queen it over the proudest flower on earth.
Doubtless all of you are aware that Holland before the last war was one of the leading countries of the world in the propagation of bulbs, garden shrubs and flowering perennials.
It became a battle between us and the unknown enemy to prevent the fertile propagation of those spores and the discovery of their source.
If I have succeeded, open the sack and summon the Committee on Propagation and Preservation of the Hadleyburg Reputation.
With the higher vertebrates it is periodical, or is resorted to for the satisfaction of a given want-- propagation of the species, migration, hunting, or mutual defence.
Allworthy, who brooked but ill any delay of giving happiness to others, had not Sophia herself prevented it, and taken measures to put a final end to the whole treaty, and to rob both church and law of those taxes which these wise bodies have thought proper to receive from the propagation of the human species in a lawful manner.