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Webster 1913 Edition
Propagator
Prop′a-gaˊtor
,Noun.
[L.: cf. F.
propagateur
.] One who propagates; one who continues or multiplies.
Webster 1828 Edition
Propagator
PROP'AGATOR
,Noun.
1.
One that continues or multiplies any species of animals or plants.2.
One that spreads or causes to circulate, as a report.3.
One that plants and establishes in a country destitute; as a propagator of the gospel.4.
One that plants, originates or extends; one that promotes.Definition 2024
propagator
propagator
English
Noun
propagator (plural propagators)
- A person who disseminates news or rumour
- A person who propagates plants
- A covered, sometimes heated container for germinating seeds or raising seedlings
- (physics) A function that represents the quantum propagation of a subatomic particle
Translations
person who disseminates news or rumour
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person who propagates plants
container for germinating seeds or raising seedlings
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physics: function
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Latin
Verb
prōpāgātor
- second-person singular future passive imperative of prōpāgō
- third-person singular future passive imperative of prōpāgō
References
- propagator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- propagator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “propagator”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.