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- noun Plural form of
propagation .
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Examples
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And the first holy records, which within those brief memorials of things which passed before the flood entered few things as worthy to be registered but only lineages and propagations, yet nevertheless honour the remembrance of the inventor both of music and works in metal.
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Second and subsequent propagations are known as daughter solutions.
Chapter 6 1989
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Obviously, where an organism must react quickly to some stimulus, faster and faster rates of nerve-impulse propagations are desirable.
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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The propagations of the tide wave meet at Hell Gate, so that here the observations, when plotted, exhibit compound curves, in which the portion due to the wave from Sandy Hook is easily distinguishable from that due to the wave from
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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If the satellites are unequal, the propagations of the waves will no longer be regular, but disturbances of the ring will in this, as in the former case, produce only waves, and not growing confusion.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904
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Those spiritual propagations in semi-brutish men are very difficult; for, although reason is not altogether extinguished, the sparks of it are so feeble that one must use considerable discretion and prudence in order to arouse them.
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With those monsters were the discalced Augustinian religious dealing on the Zambales coast; having as the object of their living faith the salvation of souls, they could employ themselves admirably in such spiritual propagations, planting and watering with immense labor, God granting them the desired increase in that so blessed intercourse.
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Patient inquiry has enabled me to verify the following history of their propagations.
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The fact was in the law of natural retribution from the first, just as gravity was in the world before it was declared by science; for the penal disorders, once begun, are not reducible by us, and the trains of retributive causes started by transgression make up a series of propagations naturally endless.
The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation. 1802-1876 1871
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It is the seed view, in a sense, of the almost annual harvest that has followed; and as all choice seedlings are apt to degenerate in their successive propagations, we are obliged to admit that this original, first form of the doctrine was incomparably better than almost any of the revisions, or enlarged expositions of it since given.
The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation. 1802-1876 1871
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