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

synonym: extension.

Roget 531: publication; public announcement etc. 527; promulgation, propagation, proclamation, pronunziamento [It]; circulation, indiction^†, edition; hue and cry.    publicity, notoriety, currency, flagrancy, cry, bruit, hype; vox populi; report etc. (news) 532.    the Press, public press, newspaper, journal, gazette, daily; telegraphy; publisher etc. v.; imprint.    circular, circular letter; manifesto, advertisement, ad.   , placard, bill, affiche^†, broadside, poster; notice etc. 527.    ... show more

Polish: rozpropagowanie

The act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production.

synonyms: generation, multiplication.

Roget 168: productiveness etc. adj.; fecundity, fertility, luxuriance, uberty^†.    pregnancy, pullulation, fructification, multiplication, propagation, procreation; superfetation.    milch cow, rabbit, hydra, warren, seed plot, land flowing with milk and honey; second crop, aftermath; aftercrop, aftergrowth^†; arrish^†, eddish^†, rowen^†; protoplasm; fertilization.    ... show more

Roget 161: production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture; building, architecture, erection, edification; coinage; diaster^†; organization; nisus formativus [Lat.]; putting together etc. v.; establishment; workmanship, performance; achievement etc. (completion) 729.    flowering, fructification; inflorescence.    bringing forth etc. v.; parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics; geniture^†; gestation etc. (maturation) 673; assimilation; evolution, development, growth; entelechy [Phil.]; fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy [Biol.], genesis, generation, epigenesis^†, procreation, progeneration^†, propagation; fecundation, impregnation; albumen etc. 357.    spontaneous generation; archegenesis^†, archebiosis^†; biogenesis, abiogenesis^†, digenesis^†, dysmerogenesis^†, eumerogenesis^†, heterogenesis^†, oogenesis, merogenesis^†, metogenesis^†, monogenesis^†, parthenogenesis, homogenesis^†, xenogenesis1^†; authorship, publication; works, opus, oeuvre.    biogeny^†, dissogeny^†, xenogeny^†; tocogony^†, vacuolization.    edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit.    ... show more

Polish: propagacja

The movement of a wave through a medium.

Polish: propagacja