English noun: propagation |
1. | propagation (communication) the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions |
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| Synonyms | extension |
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| Broader (hypernym) | airing, dissemination, public exposure, spreading |
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2. | propagation (act) the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production |
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| Synonyms | generation, multiplication |
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| Broader (hypernym) | breeding, facts of life, procreation, reproduction |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | biogenesis, biogeny |
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3. | propagation (phenomenon) the movement of a wave through a medium |
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| Broader (hypernym) | physical phenomenon |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | Doppler effect, Doppler shift, red shift, redshift, wave front |
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