Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who propagates; one who continues by generation or successive production; one who causes something to extend or spread; a promoter; a diffuser: as, a propagator of heresies.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who propagates; one who continues or multiplies.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person who disseminates news or rumour
  • noun A person who propagates plants
  • noun A covered, sometimes heated container for germinating seeds or raising seedlings
  • noun physics A function that represents the quantum propagation of a subatomic particle

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who propagates plants (as under glass)
  • noun someone who spreads the news

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Examples

  • Once the meme has been propagated, the propagator is tossed aside, and must wait to be rediscovered by “the kids,” à la Tony Bennett.

    Fallen Stars 2007

  • Once the meme has been propagated, the propagator is tossed aside, and must wait to be rediscovered by “the kids,” à la Tony Bennett.

    Fallen Stars 2007

  • In 1985 a college student interning at Bell Laboratories -- Robert Tappan Morris, later known as the propagator of the notorious Internet Worm -- first theorized this particular glitch.

    The Case For Hackers 2008

  • The field will operate by way, of course, of the Jones propagator, which is dipolar and restricted to the imaginary plane and for which all trees are an antenna by excitation of cellulolignonic resonances.

    New Mann Paper « Climate Audit 2006

  • I purchased a cheap 36 cell propagator, that is 3 rows wide by 12 long and will use this to start growing the seedlings.

    ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds 2009

  • "propagator" - duh -, a function of the particle's four-momentum, which has a pole (a value where it becomes infinite) for a specific value of four-momentum squared.

    Scientific Blogging 2009

  • What difference does it make to debunk a very minor strain of prewar nonsense while the site continues to be a devout propagator of Pentagon approved postwar nonsense?

    Another Iraq War Propaganda Nugget Bites the Dust « Antiwar.com Blog 2009

  • What difference does it make to debunk a very minor strain of prewar nonsense while the site continues to be a devout propagator of Pentagon approved postwar nonsense? couscous

    Another Iraq War Propaganda Nugget Bites the Dust « Antiwar.com Blog 2009

  • NEW YORK — A decade ago the U.S. government attacked Al-Jazeera as a propagator of anti-American propaganda.

    Hillary Clinton's Al Jazeera Comments Draw Attention Of U.S. Media 2011

  • What difference does it make to debunk a very minor strain of prewar nonsense while the site continues to be a devout propagator of Pentagon approved postwar nonsense? couscous

    Another Iraq War Propaganda Nugget Bites the Dust « Antiwar.com Blog 2009

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