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Furthering vs Propagation - What's the difference?

furthering | propagation |

As nouns the difference between furthering and propagation

is that furthering is the act by which something is furthered; furtherance while propagation is the multiplication or natural increase in a population.

As a verb furthering

is .

furthering

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is furthered; furtherance.
  • * (George Eliot)
    • the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swims and makes his point or else is carried headlong.

    propagation

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • the multiplication or natural increase in a population
  • the dissemination of something to a larger area or greater number
  • (physics) the act of propagating, especially the movement of a wave
  • (genetics) the elongation part of transcription
  • (religion) winning new converts
  • some degree of success in the spread of propaganda

    • Derived terms

    * backpropagation * micropropagation * propagation constant * propagation delay * propagation mode * propagation time