noun
Meaning 1
A person who disseminates news or rumour
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Standard Lemma guide
propagator
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noun
Meaning 2
A person who propagates plants
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noun
Meaning 3
A covered, sometimes heated container for germinating seeds or raising seedlings
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noun
Meaning 4
A function that represents the quantum propagation of a subatomic particle
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Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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noun
Meaning 5
someone who spreads the news
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: disseminator
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Broader terms: communicator
noun
Meaning 6
someone who propagates plants (as under glass)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: botanist, phytologist, plant scientist
History
Etymology
From propagate + -or.
Across languages
Translations
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: разпространител (razprostranitel) — person who disseminates news or rumour
- Catalan: propagador — person who disseminates news or rumour
- Finnish: propagoija — person who disseminates news or rumour
- French: propagateur — person who disseminates news or rumour
- Catalan: propagador — container for germinating seeds or raising seedlings
- Dutch: kweekbak — container for germinating seeds or raising seedlings
- Finnish: idätysastia — container for germinating seeds or raising seedlings
- Finnish: idättämö — container for germinating seeds or raising seedlings
- Catalan: propagador — physics: function
- Finnish: propagaattori — physics: function
- Polish: propagator — physics: function