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dispersio — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • dispersion noun The act of scattering things widely, or the state of being spread out over a large area.

Senses

dispersio is used for these senses in English:

  • dispersion (optics) The separation of visible light by refraction or diffraction.

dispersion — full definition

  1. noun The act of scattering things widely, or the state of being spread out over a large area.
  2. noun In statistics, the extent to which values in a data set are spread out around their average, measured by quantities such as range, variance and standard deviation.
  3. noun In physics, the splitting of light or another wave into its component wavelengths, because each travels at a slightly different speed in the medium.

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