Zerstreuung — meaning in English
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English meaning
- dissipation noun The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
- distraction noun Something that pulls your attention away from what you should be doing.
- diversion noun Something done to distract attention from what is really happening.
- scattering noun A small, irregularly spread amount of something.
- sprinkling noun A small, thinly scattered amount of something.
Senses
Zerstreuung is used for these senses in English:
- dissipation The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
- distraction The process of being distracted.
- diversion A hobby; an activity that distracts the mind.
- scattering (physics) The process whereby a beam of waves or particles is dispersed by collisions or similar interactions.
- sprinkling A scattering.
dissipation — full definition
- noun The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
- noun A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in immoral indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness.
- noun A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.
- noun A loss of energy, usually as heat, from a dynamic system.