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dissemination

dissemination \dis*sem`i*na"tion\, n. [L. disseminatio: cf. F. diss['e]mination.] The act of disseminating, or the state of being disseminated; diffusion for propagation and permanence; a scattering or spreading abroad, as of ideas, beliefs, etc.

The universal dissemination of those writings.
--Wayland.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dissemination

1640s, from Latin disseminationem (nominative disseminatio) "a scattering of seed, a sowing," noun of action from past participle stem of disseminare (see disseminate). Or perhaps a native noun formation from disseminate.

Wiktionary
dissemination

n. The act of disseminate, or the state of being disseminated; diffusion for propagation and permanence; a scattering or spreading abroad, as of ideas, beliefs, etc.

WordNet
dissemination
  1. n. the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate [syn: airing, public exposure, spreading]

  2. the property of being diffused or dispersed [syn: diffusion]

  3. the act of dispersing or diffusing something; "the dispersion of the troops"; "the diffusion of knowledge" [syn: dispersion, dispersal, diffusion]

Wikipedia
Dissemination

To disseminate (from lat. disseminare "scattering seeds"), in the field of communication, means to broadcast a message to the public without direct feedback from the audience.

Usage examples of "dissemination".

It would be one of the greatest platforms for the dissemination of a hideous, murderous, antilife ideology.

This demands a very specific kind of organization, of dissemination, of crafted rumours and counter-intelligence.

At any given period there was a dearth of reliable encyclopaedias, which exercised a monopoly on the dissemination of knowledge.

In fact, there were many meetings held without Pompeia, either because the mischief being plotted was not for dissemination to the mother of the Pontifex Maximus, or because someone was proposing yet again that Pompeia be ejected.

TP receives also the spontaneous disseminations of the InterLace Subscription Pulse-Matrix, but the procedures for ordering specific spontaneous pulses from the service are so technologically and cryp-tographically complex that the attache has always left the whole business to his wife.

The dissemination of Intertech's antimutagen was only a setback, not a defeat.

Green had at one time been one of New England's most influential aerobics instructors even costarring once or twice, in the decade before digital dissemination, on the widely rented Buns of Steel aerobics home-video series and had been in high demand and very influential until, to his horror, in his late twenties, the absolute prime of an aerobics instructor's working life, either one of Mr.

The internet is only a revolutionary medium of nearly costless dissemination for those who don't manage subscription lists and don't try to distinguish between authorized and unauthorized readers.

Parke of gy, the cryptanalytical subsection, and Kramer of gz, the translation and dissemination subsection.

Sitting in the Dai-jin's grand office at M1TL he heard telephones ringing, the chatter of faxes coming through from all points on the globe, the hum of laser printers hard at work making hard copies of his policies for dissemination to other bureaus and the media.

Perfectly smooth and free-flowing, the microcapsules rolled virtually without friction and would not acquire electrostatic charges mat might make them cling to objects on which they alighted, enabling secondary dissemination of the agent in breezes kicked up by weather, the wings of birds, or the tires of a Mack semi whipping down the interstate.

He pioneered not only the dissemination of electronic texts - but also some of the working models that underpinned the Internet until the dot.

Traces of this Greek dissemination are to be found far away in central Asia and in north-west India.