dispersion
See also: Dispersion and dispersión
English
Etymology
From Middle English dispersioun, from Old French dispersion, from Latin dispersiō.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA(key): /dɪˈspɜːʒən/
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /dɪˈspɝʒən/
Audio (US): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʒən
Noun
dispersion (countable and uncountable, plural dispersions)
- The state of being dispersed.
- Synonym: dispersedness
- Coordinate term: dispersivity
- A process of dispersing.
- Synonym: dispersal
- The degree of scatter of data.
- (optics) The separation of visible light by refraction or diffraction.
- (medicine) The removal of inflammation.
Derived terms
- antidispersion
- biodispersion
- dedispersion
- dispersionless
- electrodispersion
- equidispersion
- hyperdispersion
- hypodispersion
- isodispersion
- London dispersion force
- macrodispersion
- magnetodispersion
- microdispersion
- nanodispersion
- nondispersion
- optical rotatory dispersion
- overdispersion
- pigment dispersion syndrome
- polydispersion
- redispersion
- thermodispersion
- underdispersion
- velocity dispersion
Related terms
Translations
state
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process
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degree of scatter of data
optics: separation of visible light to its component frequencies
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References
- Chambers's Etymological Dictionary, 1896, p. 131
Anagrams
Danish
Noun
dispersion c (singular definite dispersionen, plural indefinite dispersioner)
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Declension
| common gender |
singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | dispersion | dispersionen | dispersioner | dispersionerne |
| genitive | dispersions | dispersionens | dispersioners | dispersionernes |
Further reading
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dis.pɛʁ.sjɔ̃/
Noun
dispersion f (plural dispersions)
Further reading
- “dispersion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.