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disperse

verb

  1. to scatter
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /dɪˈspɜːs/ / /dɪˈspɝs/

adj

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. 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.

verb

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. 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 dissipate.
  3. To disseminate.
  4. To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.
  5. To distribute throughout.