scattering

English

Verb

scattering

1. present participle of scatter

Noun

scattering (plural scatterings)

1. A small quantity of something occurring at irregular intervals and dispersed at random points,

   There will be a scattering of showers, with heavy rain in places.

   • 2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in the Guardian‎^[1]:

     There was something distinctly low-key, even wilfully alienating about the band’s performance. A scattering of OK Computer tracks were interspersed with more abstract latterday material – the clatter of 15 Step and Myxamatosis.

2. (physics) The process whereby a beam of waves or particles is dispersed by collisions or similar interactions.

Hypernyms

• light-scattering

Translations

physical process

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 散射 (zh) (sǎnshè)

• Czech: rozptyl m
• Dutch: verspreiding (nl),verstrooiing (nl)
• Finnish: sironta
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• French: diffusion (fr) f, éparpillement (fr) m
• German: Streuung (de) f, Zerstreuung (de) f
• Russian: рассеивание (ru) n (rasseivanije)
• Urdu: بکھراو f (bikhrāv)