disseminator

American  

[dih-sem-uh-ney-ter] / dɪˈsɛm əˌneɪ tər /

noun

1. a person or thing that scatters or spreads something widely, often one that spreads information or ideas.

   Students can help each other learn instead of relying on their teachers as the sole disseminators of knowledge.

   Cattle trade movements can act as efficient disseminators of viruses to areas several hundred kilometers away.

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Etymology

Origin of disseminator

First recorded in 1610–20; disseminat(e) ( def. ) + -or ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

The Times seems to default to the term “misinformation,” which happens when the disseminator actually believes what they tell others.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2022

Now, scientists say they have identified another critical disseminator of the compounds: sea spray.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 20, 2021

“The Greek Connection” opens with the words: “He was a journalist before he was a journalist. A gatherer and disseminator of information, he never considered doing anything else.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2020

It became a prolific disseminator of misleading memes — with consequences that everyone now knows but no one yet fully comprehends.

From Nature • Oct. 1, 2018

If Alexandrian criticism, and, back of it, Aristotle, were ultimately responsible for the rules, Horace was their disseminator in later times, and was looked up to as final authority.

From Horace and His Influence by Showerman, Grant