Word Meanings - DISPERSAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or result of dispersing or scattering; dispersion. Darwin.

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• DISPERSION
  The separation of light into its different colored rays, arising from their different refrangibilities. Dispersion of the optic axes , the separation of the optic axes in biaxial crystals, due to the fact that the axial angle has different values
• RESULTIVE
  Resultant. Fuller.
• DISPERSED
  Scattered. -- Dis*pers"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pers"ed*ness, n. Dispersed harmony , harmony in which the tones composing the chord are widely separated, as by an octave or more.
• DARWINIAN
  Pertaining to Darwin; as, the Darwinian theory, a theory of the manner and cause of the supposed development of living things from certain original forms or elements. Note: This theory was put forth by Darwin in 1859 in a work entitled "The Origin
• SCATTERLING
  One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond. "Foreign scatterlings." Spenser.
• SCATTER-BRAIN
  A giddy or thoughtless person; one incapable of concentration or attention.
• DISPERSE
  1. To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations. The lips of the wise disperse knowledge. Prov. xv. 7. Two lions, in the still, dark night, A herd of
• RESULT
  1. A flying back; resilience. Sound is produced between the string and the air by the return or the result of the string. Bacon. 2. That which results; the conclusion or end to which any course or condition of things leads, or which is obtained
• SCATTERGOOD
  One who wastes; a spendthrift.
• DARWINIANISM
  Darwinism.
• DISPERSAL
  The act or result of dispersing or scattering; dispersion. Darwin.
• DISPERSER
  One that disperses.
• SCATTERING
  Going or falling in various directions; not united or agregated; divided among many; as, scattering votes.
• SCATTER
  Etym: 1. To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order. And some are scattered all the floor about. Chaucer. Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains,
• RESULTANCE
  The act of resulting; that which results; a result. Donne.
• DISPERSIVE
  Tending to disperse. Dispersive power , the relative effect of a material in separating the different rays of light by refraction, as when the substance is formed into a prism. -- Dis*pers"ive*ness, n.
• DISPERSONATE
  To deprive of personality or individuality. We multiply; we dispersonate ourselves. Hare.
• SCATTER-BRAINED
  Giddy; thoughtless.
• RESULTLESS
  Being without result; as, resultless investigations.
• DISPERSENESS
  Dispersedness.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• INDISPERSED
  Not dispersed.
• NEO-DARWINISM
  The theory which holds natural selection, as explained by Darwin, to be the chief factor in the evolution of plants and animals, and denies the inheritance of acquired characters; -- esp. opposed to Neo-Lamarckism. Weismannism is an example
• PRESULTOR
  A leader in the dance.