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Type Words
Synonyms distribution
Type of spatial arrangement, spacing
Has types scatter, complementation, diaspora, diffusion, dissemination, innervation, complementary distribution, spread
Type Words
Synonyms scattering
Type of spreading, spread
Has types diaspora, dissipation
Derivation disperse
Type Words
Synonyms diffusion, dispersal, dissemination
Type of spreading, spread
Has types crop-dusting, spraying
Derivation disperse


the dispersion of the troops.

Examples of dispersion

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They also aid in dispersion of emissions, which reduces the impact on neighbors.
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Rayleigh waves on ideal, homogeneous and flat elastic solids show no dispersion.
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Yet inevitably it had been diluted though its dispersion through other teachers.
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From here a second dispersion took place possibly due to pressure for more land.
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When added to glass, it helps increase refractive index and decrease dispersion.
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By reducing the dispersion of transportation assets, movement times are reduced.
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Another obstacle to Bosnia's partition is the dispersion of its Croat population.
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Most measures of dispersion have the same scale as the quantity being measured.
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The results also hold up when tested for concentric dispersion from Wittenberg.
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  • Spreading widely or driving off
  • Distribution: the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume; "worldwide in distribution"; "the distribution of nerve fibers"; "in complementary distribution"
  • The act of dispersing or diffusing something; "the dispersion of the troops"; "the diffusion of knowledge"
  • (dispersed) distributed or spread over a considerable extent; "has ties with many widely dispersed friends"; "eleven million Jews are spread throughout Europe"
  • A dispersion is a system in which particles are dispersed in a continuous phase of a different composition (or state). See also emulsion. ...
  • Dispersion is a measure for the statistical distribution of portfolio returns. It is the asset-weighted standard deviation of individual portfolio returns within a comparable client group (composite) from the composite return.
  • Dispersion occurs when a soil is . When a sodic soil is wetted the clay particles are forced apart. This is generally a major cause of erosion.
  • In materials science, dispersion is the fraction of atoms of a material exposed to the surface. In general: where D is the dispersion, NS is the number of surface atoms and NT is the total number of atoms of the material. ...
  • In optics, dispersion is the phenomenon in which the phase velocity of a wave depends on its frequency, or alternatively when the group velocity depends on the frequency. Media having such a property are termed dispersive media. ...