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Narrator: Today's word is "Propagation" — noun, pronounced /ˌprɒpəˈɡeɪʃn/, with the stress on "ga".
Narrator: Propagation is the spreading of something, or the growing of new plants.
Narrator: In plain English, it's spreading and multiplying.
Narrator: It comes from the Latin propagatio, extension.
Narrator: A common collocation is "plant propagation", which describes growing new plants.
Narrator: It differs from "growth", because propagation means making more, not getting bigger.
Narrator: In physics, wave propagation is how light or sound travels.
Narrator: Gardening, physics, telecoms and computing all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: propagation is spreading onward.
Speaker A: What is DNS propagation?
Speaker B: The time for updates to spread worldwide! PROPAGATION comes from the Latin for extension.
Speaker A: So it isn't instant?
Speaker B: Up to a day sometimes.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "Plant propagation saves money", gardening. "Radio propagation improves at night", physics. "DNS propagation can take hours", computing.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Propagation is usually uncountable: say rapid propagation, not propagations.
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Spread is its cousin, transmission is its twin, and dissemination is the formal alternative, but propagation keeps its travelling charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "propagation" in AI prompts — useful for network tools and machine learning.
Speaker A: How would network tools use it?
Speaker B: Check spread.
Prompt: Build a tool that checks DNS propagation across ten global servers.
Speaker A: And machine learning?
Speaker B: Explain training.
Prompt: Explain back-propagation in neural networks with a simple two-layer example.
Speaker A: Could it help gardening?
Speaker B: Yes, guides.
Prompt: Create a plant propagation calendar for a British allotment.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Telecoms.
Prompt: Model signal propagation loss between two towers ten kilometres apart.
Propagation — meaning in Arabic & definition More P courses GL Dictionary