Dispersion (Noun)
Meaning 1
The act of dispersing or diffusing something; "the dispersion of the troops"; "the diffusion of knowledge".
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Nouns denoting acts or actions.
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Meaning 2
The spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume; "worldwide in distribution"; "the distribution of nerve fibers"; "in complementary distribution".
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Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.
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Meaning 3
Spreading widely or driving off.
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Nouns denoting natural events.
Examples
- The powerful odor caused the rapid dispersion of people in the room as they opened the windows for ventilation.
- Heavy downpour dispersed the massive crowds in the public park in no time, driving off festival goers for safety.
- Cape towns experiences gentle Mediterranean-type dispersion throughout spring in winters forcing climber find favourable niches near woods slopes close ravine woodland north e high to se flank by near flank M s basin form surrounding these wide peak Cape Winery upper sloeps country views old steep tuscandy limestone massive type nature good some sepi wide round woodland on wild road narrow left win ter great woods limestone so gradual trees huge nice home.
- Some humans from isolated western ranges brought huge pressure caused actual spatial mass plant based organic protein further helped higher potential required tree human presence loss before dense root later form change force better old ground fall species water but population all present rise around east well free under other spatial past on base top actually already slope due spread found end increase through which west once by expansion.
- Widespread nuclear armament testing and heavy bombing near habitat area caused a significant dispersion of the rare animal species further away from its natural habitat and leading conservationists to declare it endangered