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διασπορά — meaning in English

diaspora

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English meaning

  • diaspora noun A population that has spread out from its original homeland, and the dispersal itself — as in the African, Irish or Jewish diaspora.
  • dispersion noun The act of scattering things widely, or the state of being spread out over a large area.
  • dissipation noun The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.

Senses

διασπορά is used for these senses in English:

  • diaspora (collective) The dispersion of a group in a manner comparable to that of the Jews among the Gentiles after the Babylonian captivity (6th century BCE).
  • dissipation The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.

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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