disperser

English

Etymology

disperse +‎ -er

Noun

disperser (plural dispersers)

1. (chemistry) A substance that stabilizes a dispersion; an emulsifier.
2. (graph theory) A particular kind of bipartite graph.
3. (ecology) An organism that disperses something, such as seeds, in the environment.
   • 1996, Charles R. Brown, ‎Mary Bomberger Brown, Coloniality in the Cliff Swallow

     Nesting data from dispersers and nondispersers came from the same set of colonies and were thus directly comparable.

Synonyms

• (chemistry): dispersant

See also

• disperser on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• presiders, respiders

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis.pɛʁ.se/

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Verb

disperser

1. to scatter; to disperse

Conjugation

Conjugation of disperser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	disperser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	dispersant /dis.pɛʁ.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		dispersé /dis.pɛʁ.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	disperse /dis.pɛʁs/	disperses /dis.pɛʁs/	disperse /dis.pɛʁs/	dispersons /dis.pɛʁ.sɔ̃/	dispersez /dis.pɛʁ.se/	dispersent /dis.pɛʁs/
	imperfect	dispersais /dis.pɛʁ.sɛ/	dispersais /dis.pɛʁ.sɛ/	dispersait /dis.pɛʁ.sɛ/	dispersions /dis.pɛʁ.sjɔ̃/	dispersiez /dis.pɛʁ.sje/	dispersaient /dis.pɛʁ.sɛ/
	past historic2	dispersai /dis.pɛʁ.se/	dispersas /dis.pɛʁ.sa/	dispersa /dis.pɛʁ.sa/	dispersâmes /dis.pɛʁ.sam/	dispersâtes /dis.pɛʁ.sat/	dispersèrent /dis.pɛʁ.sɛʁ/
	future	disperserai /dis.pɛʁ.sə.ʁe/	disperseras /dis.pɛʁ.sə.ʁa/	dispersera /dis.pɛʁ.sə.ʁa/	disperserons /dis.pɛʁ.sə.ʁɔ̃/	disperserez /dis.pɛʁ.sə.ʁe/	disperseront /dis.pɛʁ.sə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	disperserais /dis.pɛʁ.sə.ʁɛ/	disperserais /dis.pɛʁ.sə.ʁɛ/	disperserait /dis.pɛʁ.sə.ʁɛ/	disperserions /dis.pɛʁ.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	disperseriez /dis.pɛʁ.sə.ʁje/	disperseraient /dis.pɛʁ.sə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	disperse /dis.pɛʁs/	disperses /dis.pɛʁs/	disperse /dis.pɛʁs/	dispersions /dis.pɛʁ.sjɔ̃/	dispersiez /dis.pɛʁ.sje/	dispersent /dis.pɛʁs/
	imperfect2	dispersasse /dis.pɛʁ.sas/	dispersasses /dis.pɛʁ.sas/	dispersât /dis.pɛʁ.sa/	dispersassions /dis.pɛʁ.sa.sjɔ̃/	dispersassiez /dis.pɛʁ.sa.sje/	dispersassent /dis.pɛʁ.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	disperse /dis.pɛʁs/	—	dispersons /dis.pɛʁ.sɔ̃/	dispersez /dis.pɛʁ.se/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “disperser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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German

Adjective

disperser

1. comparative degree of dispers