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