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dispersal

noun

Etymology

From disperse + -al.

derived from dispersus
borrowed from disperser
suffixed as dispersal — “disperse + al”

Definitions

1
The act or result of dispersing or scattering
The act or result of dispersing or scattering; dispersion.
- For a time, Okeh picked up the disk for national dispersal.
2
A dispersal prison.
- Problems of control in dispersals and in other prisons necessarily instigated a multiplicity of working theories to explain the difficulties […]

The neighborhood

Derived

codispersal, dispersal accommodation, dispersalism, dispersalist, geodispersal, nondispersal, overdispersal, postdispersal, predispersal, radiological dispersal device, redispersal

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dispersal. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA