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Dispersive

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Tending to become dispersed.

adj. Tending to produce dispersion.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. That becomes dispersed

adj. That causes dispersion

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Tending to disperse.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Pertaining to dispersion; dispersing; separating and scattering.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. spreading by diffusion

Word Usage

"Buddhism, however, on the 'dispersive' view of the evolution of religion, is not the only radiation from the common centre, of which we have to take account, in addition to fetishism, polytheism, and monotheism."

Equivalent

distributive

Form

dispersive line dispersive power dispersive medium dispersive mass transfer

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

coercive discursive subversive

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

chromatographymass energy-dispersive apperceptive optical-to-electrical commutative photoelectron ultra-high small-angle uncreative hyperfine