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
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing 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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1. The act of dispersing or of being dispersed. 2. The more or less intimate incorporation of the particles of one substance into the mass of another, including solutions, suspensions, and colloidal dispersions. 3. Specifically, what is usually called, less correctly, a colloidal solution.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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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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The act of scattering; the state of being scattered; the separation of light into its different coloured rays; the removing of inflammation from a part, and restoring it to its natural state.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The act or state of scattering; in optics, the separation of light into its different coloured rays in passing through a prism.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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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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