DISPERSION
\dɪspˈɜːʃən], \dɪspˈɜːʃən], \d_ɪ_s_p_ˈɜː_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of DISPERSION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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the act of dispersing or diffusing something; "the dispersion of the troops"; "the diffusion of knowledge"
By Princeton University
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the act of dispersing or diffusing something; "the dispersion of the troops"; "the diffusion of knowledge"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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The separation of light into its different colored rays, arising from their different refrangibilities.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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The separation of light into its different colored rays, arising from their different refrangibilities.
By Noah Webster.
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A scattering: (med.) the removal of inflammation: (optics) the separation of light into its different rays.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A scattering; in optics, the process of decomposing a ray of white light, also the degree to which its components are thereby caused to diverge; in natural history, the dissemination of species; in medicine, the resolution of an inflammation, swelling, or the like.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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