dispersion
Other forms: dispersions
The noun dispersion means the process of distributing something over an area. A combination of your yearly planting of new bulbs and their natural tendency to spread has led to the dispersion of daffodils over your entire back yard.
Dispersion refers to the act of spreading something, like your dispersion of sprinkles evenly over three dozen cupcakes. It can also be used to talk about the scattering of something across a very large range, such as the dispersion of people with Scottish heritage across the United States. The Latin root word is dispersione, which means a scattering.
Definitions of dispersion
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spreading widely or driving offsynonyms: scatteringtypes:Diasporathe dispersion of the Jews outside Israel; from the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 587-86 BC when they were exiled to Babylonia up to the present timedissipationbreaking up and scattering by dispersion
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the act of dispersing or diffusing something“the dispersion of the troops”synonyms: diffusion, dispersal, disseminationtypes:crop-dusting, sprayingthe dispersion of fungicides or insecticides or fertilizer on growing crops (often from a low-flying aircraft)
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the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volumesynonyms: distributiontypes:complementary distribution, complementation(linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contextsdiasporathe dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture)innervationthe distribution of nerve fibers to an organ or body regiondiffusenessthe spatial property of being spread out over a wide area or through a large volumetype of:spacing, spatial arrangementthe property possessed by an array of things that have space between them
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