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spridning — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • dispersal noun The act of scattering people or things over a wide area, or the state of being scattered.
  • dispersion noun The act of scattering things widely, or the state of being spread out over a large area.
  • dissemination noun The act of disseminating, or the state of being disseminated; diffusion for propagation and permanence; a scattering or spreading abroad, as of ideas, beliefs, etc.
  • spread verb To open something out so it covers a wider area.
  • spreading noun The act of something becoming more widely distributed or known.

Senses

spridning is used for these senses in English:

  • dispersal The act or result of dispersing or scattering; dispersion.
  • dispersion The degree of scatter of data.
  • dissemination The act of disseminating, or the state of being disseminated; diffusion for propagation and permanence; a scattering or spreading abroad, as of ideas, beliefs, etc.
  • spread A numerical difference.
  • spread (trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.
  • spreading The act by which something is spread.

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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