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n. The act or process of dispersing.

n. The state of being dispersed.

n. The Diaspora of the Jews.

n. Statistics The degree of scatter of data, usually about an average value, such as the median.

n. Physics Separation of a complex wave into its component parts according to a given characteristic, such as frequency or wavelength.

n. Physics Separation of visible light into colors by refraction or diffraction.

n. Chemistry See disperse system.

n. The state of being dispersed; dispersedness.

n. A process of dispersing.

n. The degree of scatter of data.

n. The separation of visible light by refraction or diffraction.

n. The removal of inflammation.

n. The act or process of scattering or dispersing, or the state of being scattered or separated

n. The separation of light into its different colored rays, arising from their different refrangibilities.

n. The act of dispersing or scattering.

n. The state of being dispersed or scattered abroad: as, the dispersion of the Jews.

n. In optics, the separation of the different colored rays in refraction, arising from their different, wave-lengths.

n. In medicine and surgery, the scattering or removal of inflammation from a part and the restoration of the part to its natural state.

n. In mathematics, the excess of the average value of a function at less than an infinitesimal distance from a point over the value at that point, this excess being divided by 1/10 of the square of the limiting infinitesimal distance.

n. In physiol, optics, the blurring of the retinal image due to faulty accommodation.

n. In botany, the distribution of seeds and of plants by various means, as by the wind, by birds and animals, etc.

n. The tendency of material particles or bodies, including conscious individuals, to go apart, as from a center; hence, in the phenomena of population, the continual breaking down and dispersing of aggregations, counteracting a tendency toward concentration. See law of *aggregation.

n. the act of dispersing or diffusing something

n. the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume

n. spreading widely or driving off

"In any case, in this example, dispersion is acceptable."

dispersion of the bisectrices    anomalous dispersion    dispersion circle    dispersion-apparatus    abnormal dispersion    sellmeier's theory of dispersion    cone of dispersion    atmospheric dispersion    law of dispersion    dispersion of the optic axes   

Persian    aspersion    aversion    conversion    diversion    excursion    immersion    incursion    inversion    perversion   

polarization    diffusion    dispersal    distribution    divergence    displacement    absorption    separation    density    deviation