dispersion

See also: Dispersion and dispersión

English

Etymology

From Middle English dispersioun, from Old French dispersion, from Latin dispersiō.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪˈspɜːʒən/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /dɪˈspɝʒən/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /dɪˈspɜːʒən/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /dəˈspøːʒən/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʒən

Noun

dispersion (countable and uncountable, plural dispersions)

1. The state of being dispersed.

   Synonym: dispersedness

   Coordinate term: dispersivity

2. A process of dispersing.

   Synonym: dispersal

3. The degree of scatter of data.
4. (physics) The separation of waves of different frequency in space or time; the amount of such separation.
5. (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

• interspersion

Translations

state

• Bulgarian: разхвърляност (razhvǎrljanost), разпиляност (razpiljanost)
• Danish: spredning c
• Finnish: hajaannus (fi)
• French: dispersion (fr) f
• German: Verteilung (de) f
• Greek: διασπορά (el) f (diasporá), σκόρπισμα (el) n (skórpisma)
• Portuguese: dispersão (pt) f
• Russian: рассе́янность (ru) f (rasséjannostʹ), разбросанность (ru) f (razbrosannostʹ)
• Tagalog: pagkalat
• Ukrainian: розсі́яність f (rozsíjanistʹ)

process

• Bulgarian: разпръскване (bg) (razprǎskvane), разпиляване (bg) (razpiljavane)
• Czech: disperze f
• Danish: spredning c
• Finnish: hajonta
• French: dispersion (fr) f
• Greek: διασπορά (el) f (diasporá), σκόρπισμα (el) n (skórpisma)
• Manx: scaalhean f, skeayl m
• Portuguese: dispersão (pt) f
• Romanian: dispersare (ro)
• Russian: рассеивание (ru) n (rasseivanije)
• Tagalog: pagkalat
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: صاچمه (saçma)

degree of scatter of data

• Arabic: تَشَتُّت (tašattut)
• Bulgarian: разсейване (bg) (razsejvane)
• French: dispersion (fr) f
• Portuguese: dispersão (pt) f
• Swedish: spridning (sv)
• Tagalog: kakalatan

optics: separation of visible light to its component frequencies

• Bulgarian: разсейване (bg) (razsejvane)
• Danish: dispersion m, farvespredning c
• Finnish: dispersio (fi), hajottaminen (fi)
• French: dispersion (fr) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dispersjon m

  Nynorsk: dispersjon m

• Russian: дисперсия (ru) f (dispersija)
• Tagalog: pagkalat

References

• Chambers's Etymological Dictionary, 1896, p. 131

Anagrams

• pieds noirs

Danish

Noun

dispersion c (singular definite dispersionen, plural indefinite dispersioner)

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Declension

Declension of dispersion

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	dispersion	dispersionen	dispersioner	dispersionerne
genitive	dispersions	dispersionens	dispersioners	dispersionernes

Further reading

• “dispersion” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis.pɛʁ.sjɔ̃/

Noun

dispersion f (plural dispersions)

1. dispersion

Further reading

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