propagation
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The mathematical model they built to explain this behaviour wasn't new; it was the same one used to describe the spread of a forest fire or the propagation of an electrical signal through heart tissue.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026
By contrast, the American propagation of individual rights and democracy has, from the beginning, supplemented and occasionally replaced such considerations.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
"Spatially variable birefringence, that is, the difference in the propagation of different polarizations of light, acts like a synthetic magnetic field," explains Dr. Piotr Kapuściński of the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw.
From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2026
But someone in L.A. could have felt the “S” wave, in which bedrock oscillates perpendicular to the direction of the propagation of the wave, according to Page.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2024
This one battle to patent radioactive salt threatened to extinguish all this goodwill, slowing down the propagation of the cyclotron if not halting it altogether.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Vocabulary lists containing propagation
Their Eyes Were Watching God
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A Brief History of Time
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