as in dispersal
an act or process in which something scatters or is scattered
the dispersion of energy from a source
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Recent Examples of dispersion
An algorithm then divides the image into sections, counts the white pixels in each section, and uses that data to calculate a score index of dispersion.
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Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 5 Aug. 2025
The smoke will be reinforced by an area of high pressure that will create light winds and limit the dispersion of smoke.
—Anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Aug. 2025
Monuments from the Holocene Humid Period in the Dhofar were built in a single episode by groups requiring as many as seven strong men, whereas the subsequent aridification of the climate and resulting dispersion of the population encouraged the creation of accretive monuments.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
Yan believes that fine-tuning nanowires this way can lead to a previously unseen ability to control their electronic properties, including their band gap, dispersion, and how the electrons transfer through their structure.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Mar. 2017
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Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 5 Aug. 2025
The smoke will be reinforced by an area of high pressure that will create light winds and limit the dispersion of smoke.
—Anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Aug. 2025
Monuments from the Holocene Humid Period in the Dhofar were built in a single episode by groups requiring as many as seven strong men, whereas the subsequent aridification of the climate and resulting dispersion of the population encouraged the creation of accretive monuments.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
Yan believes that fine-tuning nanowires this way can lead to a previously unseen ability to control their electronic properties, including their band gap, dispersion, and how the electrons transfer through their structure.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Mar. 2017
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dispersion
Noun
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Very little funding has actually been delivered, sources say, in part because Commerce has held up its dispersal.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
27 Aug. 2025
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Even worse, Republicans ended the CTC’s monthly dispersal and actually shrunk how many children can get the CTC by 2 million.—
Debbie Wasserman Schultz,
Sun Sentinel,
19 Aug. 2025
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Unlike conventional luminescent or scattering-based concentrators, which often suffer from visual distortion, low efficiency, and poor scalability, the new CUSC delivers broadband, polarization-selective diffraction and efficient waveguiding while preserving complete visual clarity.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Sep. 2025
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Its back has a scattering of darker brown-black spots.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
1 Sep. 2025
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“Dispersion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dispersion. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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