self-propagation
- a word derived from propagation.
Example Sentences
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In early 2007, the self-propagation message that dominated the field was “230 dead as storm batters Europe”: the vehicle for the eponymous Storm Worm.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 21, 2013
Finally, the success of spam and self-propagation messages, as well as many particular aspects of the exploits that worms perform, depend on languages.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 21, 2013
Such a message is classified as a self-propagation spam campaign in the language of the antispam community—spam to add more machines to a network.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 21, 2013
The campaign was quietly launched last year as a simple patriotic movement applying to all churches, with the slogan, "Self-rule, self-support and self-propagation."
From Time Magazine Archive
Though it is frequently sown, it has the power of self-propagation to a marked degree, which makes it possible to grow many crops in succession without re-seeding by hand.
From Clovers and How to Grow Them by Shaw, Thomas
