Dispersion Definition

dĭ-spûrzhən, -shən
noun
The state of being dispersed.
American Heritage
A dispersing or being dispersed.
Webster's New World
The Diaspora of the Jews.
American Heritage
The resolution of a complex electromagnetic radiation into components in accordance with some characteristic, as wavelength or energy.
Webster's New World
The degree of scatter of data, usually about an average value, such as the median.
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Other Word Forms of Dispersion

Noun

Singular:
dispersion
Plural:
dispersions

Origin of Dispersion

  • From Old French dispersion, from Latin dispertio

    From Wiktionary

Dispersion Sentence Examples

  • The dispersion from Arabia is easy to imagine.

  • At the same time the Jews of the Dispersion had to some extent shaken off the exclusiveness of their old political relations and were prepared to compare and contrast their old territorial theology with cosmopolitan culture.

  • Even if first trained in the Hellenistic synagogues of the Dispersion, as was often the case, they apprehended the Law on its more helpful and less exacting side, and had not been brought "by the Law to die unto the Law," that they might "live unto God."

  • The tuft of hairs at the base facilitates rapid dispersion of the seed, early germination of which is rendered desirable owing to its tenuity.

  • Through them the experience of the dispersion was brought to bear upon the Palestinian Jews.

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Words Starting With

DDIDIS

Words Ending With

NONION

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dispersion

Words Starting With D and Ending With N

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