dissemination

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HEWITT: Though he also does information dissemination, which is what I do and what you do.

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  1. The act of sowing or scattering seed for propagation.
  2. A spreading abroad for some fixed purpose or with some definite effect; propagation by means of diffusion or dispersion; extension of the influence or establishment of something. He therefore multiplied them to a great necessity of a dispersion, that they might serve the ends of God and of the natural law, by their ambulatory life and their numerous disseminations. Jer. Taylor, Great Exemplar, Pref., p. 12. That dispersion, or rather dissemination [of people after the flood], hath peopled all other parts of the world. Bp. Pearson, Expos, of Creed, i.
  3. Propagation by means of promulgation; a spreading abroad for or with acceptance, as of opinions. The Gospel is of universal dissemination. Jer. Taylor, Great Exemplar, i. § 4. The dissemination of speculative notions about liberty and the rights of man. Horsley, Speech on Slave Trade.

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  • As dissemination is a large part of this project it is going to make use of a blog and wiki. —  UKOLN News
  • HEWITT: Though he also does information dissemination, which is what I do and what you do. —  Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
  • Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites explore the creation, dissemination, and the effects of iconic photographs taking us back to the circumstances in which these photos were taken and setting them in their full historical and cultural contexts. an excerpt from the book. —  The Chicago Blog
  • The whole initiative was also criticized based on its violation of escrow key held by the government for use by law enforcement, for example in wiretaps Digital Rights Management (DRM), a group of techniques for technologically controlling use of Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which criminalized the production, dissemination, and use of certain cryptanalytic techniques and technology; specifically, those that could be used to circumvent DRM technological schemes —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • She might yet prove that its wider dissemination was an intentional infliction of emotional distress. —  The Register
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  1. = French dissémination = Spanish diseminacion = Portuguese disseminação = Italian disseminazione, from Latin disseminatio(n-), from disseminare, past participle disseminatus, scatter seed: see disseminate.
 

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