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disperse

verb
/dɪˈspɜːs/UK/dɪˈspɝs/US

Etymology

From Middle French disperser, from Latin dispersus, past participle of dispergō (“to scatter abroad, disperse”), from dis- (“apart”) + spargō (“to scatter”); see sparse.

  1. derived from dispersus
  2. borrowed from disperser

Definitions

  1. To scatter in different directions.

    • The Jews are dispersed among all nations.
    • The lippes of the wiſe diſperſe knowledge: but the heart of the fooliſh, doeth not ſo.

  2. To break up and disappear

    To break up and disappear; to dissipate.

  3. To disseminate.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength

      To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.

    2. To distribute throughout.

    3. Scattered or spread out.

      • Australia itself is a very wide and very disperse country, where the distance problems significantly affect also the "internal" customer-supplier chains.
      • In particular, a very crisp quantifier such as “for all,” “there exists,” “at least 50 percent” tend to have less disperse weighting vectors while fuzzier quantifiers such as many tend to have a more disperse weighting vector.

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Derived

dedisperse, dispersable, dispersant, disperser, dispersingly, dispersity, dispersive, dispersoid, dispersometer, nondispersing, overdisperse, redisperse, undispersing

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at disperse. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at disperse. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at disperse

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