nonpropagating
Failing to transmit
Nonpropagating describes something that doesn't spread, reproduce, or transmit itself onward.
The term appears most often in technical contexts: a nonpropagating crack in materials science stays contained rather than extending through the structure, while a nonpropagating wave doesn't travel through a medium.
In biology, nonpropagating cells or organisms don't reproduce.
Lessened in force
- dampedReduced or restrained
- localizedRestricted to one place
- containedKept within limits
- isolatedSeparated from others
bounded · stationary · evanescent · absorbed · terminated · reflected · decaying · finite
Cannot spread between hosts
- noncontagiousCannot spread between hosts
- noninfectiousCannot pass to others
- containedKept within limits
- isolatedSeparated from others
dead-end · terminal · controlled · quarantined · limited · self-limiting · sporadic · localized
attenuated
Lessened in force
isolated · bounded · stationary · evanescent · absorbed · terminated · reflected · decaying · finite · limited
nontransmissible
Cannot spread between hosts
- noncontagiousCannot spread between hosts
- noninfectiousCannot pass to others
- containedKept within limits
isolated · dead-end · terminal · controlled · quarantined · limited · self-limiting · sporadic · localized · endemic
sterile
Free from microorganisms
- infertileUnable to produce offspring
- nonreproductiveNot producing offspring
- seedlessLacking inner kernels
barren · hybrid · mule · triploid · asexual · clonal · cutting · graft · terminal · dead-end
nonpropagatingpropagating
Spreading or transmitting onward
radiating · spreading · propagative · traveling · transmitting
nonpropagatingpropagating
Spreading or transmitting onward
reproducing · spreading · multiplying · self-replicating · proliferating
propagate, propagating, propagation, propagator, propagators, propagated, propagates, repropagating