About The Word Dispersion

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Dispersion

Dispersion Meaning & Definition
Dispersion Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Dispersion?

[n] the act of dispersing or diffusing something; "the dispersion of the troops"; "the diffusion of knowledge"
[n] the spatial property of being scattered about over an area or volume
[n] spreading widely or driving off

Synonyms | Synonyms for Dispersion: diffusion | dispersal | dissemination | distribution | scattering

Related Terms | Find terms related to Dispersion: addition | adjunct | administration | aggrandizement | aloofness | ampliation | amplification | anarchy | augmentation | blackout | blocking | breakup | broadening | chaos | confusion | crescendo | deactivation | deflection | deflexure | dematerialization | demobilization | departure | deployment | detachment | diaspora | diffraction | diffusion | disappearance | disappearing | disbandment | disbursal | disbursement | discontinuity | discreteness | disintegration | disjunction | dislocation | dismissal | disorder | disorganization | dispensation | dispersal | disposal | disposition | dissipation | dissolution | dissolving | distortion | distribution | dole | doling | doling out | eclipse | elimination | emanation | enlargement | entropy | erasure | evanescence | evaporation | expansion | extension | extinction | fadeaway | fadeout | fading | fanning out | flare | flection | flexure | giving out | going | hiking | incoherence | inconsistency | increase | issuance | magnification | melting | nonadhesion | noncohesion | occultation | parting | passing | passing around | paying out | radiance | radiation | radius | raising | ray | refraction | release | scatter | scattering | separateness | separation | skewness | splay | split-up | spoke | spread | spreading | torsion | unadherence | unadhesiveness | untenacity | upping | vanishing | vanishing point | widening | wipe

See Also | complementary distribution | complementation | crop-dusting | Diaspora | diffusion | dissemination | dissipation | innervation | scatter | spacing | spatial arrangement | spraying | spread | spread | spread | spreading | spreading

Dispersion In Webster's Dictionary

\Dis*per"sion\, n. [CF. F. dispersion.] 1. The act or process of scattering or dispersing, or the state of being scattered or separated; as, the Jews in their dispersion retained their rites and ceremonies; a great dispersion of the human family took place at the building of Babel. The days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished. --Jer. xxv. 34. 2. (Opt.) The separation of light into its different colored rays, arising from their different refrangibilities. {Dispersion of the optic axes} (Crystallog.), the separation of the optic axes in biaxial crystals, due to the fact that the axial angle has different values for the different colors of the spectrum.

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