disperse
verb
- to scatter
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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
- To disseminate.
- To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.
- To distribute throughout.