propagate
verb (used with object)
to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
self-propagating
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a word derived from
propagate.
Example Sentences
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“As they start to stack, it becomes a more self-propagating force.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2022
Just as the origin of biological life is, we presume, represented by the successful encoding of self-propagating, evolving information in a substrate of organic molecules.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 2, 2021
PrP exists in a healthy form, but causes disease when it misfolds into shapes that induce other PrP molecules to do the same — and so becomes self-propagating.
From Nature ● Oct. 25, 2016
In the axon, this “signal” will become a self-propagating brief reversal of the resting membrane potential called an action potential.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013
“An organic being,” writes Mr. Darwin, “is a microcosm, a little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute, and numerous as the stars in heaven.”
From Life and Habit by R. A. (Richard Alexander) Streatfeild
