self-propagate

verb

Etymology

From self- + propagate.

Definitions

  1. To reproduce without outside help.

    • The prionopathies are best known among the neurodegenerative diseases for their ability to misfold, self-propagate, and infect other organisms.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at self-propagate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at self-propagate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at self-propagate

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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