PROPAGATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does propagation mean? 

• PROPAGATION (noun)
  The noun PROPAGATION has 3 senses:

1. the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions

2. the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production

3. the movement of a wave through a medium

  Familiarity information: PROPAGATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROPAGATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

extension; propagation

Hypernyms ("propagation" is a kind of...):

airing; dissemination; public exposure; spreading (the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate)

Derivation:

propagate (cause to become widely known)

propagate (transmit or cause to broaden or spread)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

generation; multiplication; propagation

Hypernyms ("propagation" is a kind of...):

breeding; facts of life; procreation; reproduction (the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "propagation"):

biogenesis; biogeny (the production of living organisms from other living organisms)

Derivation:

propagate (multiply sexually or asexually)

propagate (cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering)

propagate (transmit from one generation to the next)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The movement of a wave through a medium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("propagation" is a kind of...):

physical phenomenon (a natural phenomenon involving the physical properties of matter and energy)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "propagation"):

Doppler effect; Doppler shift (change in the apparent frequency of a wave as observer and source move toward or away from each other)

red shift; redshift ((astronomy) a shift in the spectra of very distant galaxies toward longer wavelengths (toward the red end of the spectrum); generally interpreted as evidence that the universe is expanding)

wave front (all the points just reached by a wave as it propagates)

Derivation:

propagate (transmit)

propagate (travel through the air)

 Context examples 

Overall, fomivirsen inhibits viral propagation via inhibiting viral replication and viral uptake by host cells, hence delaying progression of CMV-associated retinitis.

(Fomivirsen Sodium, NCI Thesaurus)

Testing the device's ability to promote cancer or facilitate its propagation.

(Device Carcinogenic Testing Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

The fund was, of course, for the propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their maintenance.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Propagation of vertebrate animal cells in culture.

(Culturing, In Vitro Vertebrate, Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

Any device made from a fiber with a hollow center, particularly those for cell propagation in culture.

(Hollow Fiber Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

An electrocardiographic finding of a delay in impulse propagation through the atria.

(Intra-Atrial Conduction Delay by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

This protein is involved in the propagation of intracellular signaling through guanine nucleotide exchange activity.

(Phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-Trisphosphate-Dependent Rac Exchanger 1 Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

Abnormality of the P wave signifies aberrant propagation of the electrical impulse through the atria.

(P Wave Abnormality by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus)

The TB strain of the Moloney Murine Leukemia Virus that arises during the propagation of the S37 mouse sarcoma model.

(Moloney Murine Leukemia Virus TB, NCI Thesaurus)

Systems and reagents for the propagation of cells in tissue culture

(Cell Culture System, NCI Thesaurus)