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Definition of Dispersions
1. dispersion [n] - See also: dispersion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dispersions
Literary usage of Dispersions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mathematical and Physical Papers by Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Baron John William Strutt Rayleigh (1905)
"For the construction of an objective we require but one datum as regards the
dispersions, namely, the ratio of the dispersions, or rather, the ratio which ..."
2. Mineralogy: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Minerals by Henry Alexander Miers (1902)
"Yet, owing to the cardinal principle that the geometrical symmetry planes are
also planes of symmetry for the physical characters, the dispersions in the ..."
3. The Theory of Measurements by Lucius Tuttle (1916)
"dispersions with the Slide Rule.—In the rest of this course the dispersions are
to be calculated either with the table of squares, as explained, ..."
4. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"Of the travels and dispersions of the Jewes; and of Nationall transmigrations.
Aving premised the two former Tractates, as the two Eyes of Peregrinations ..."
5. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"Of the travels and dispersions of the Jewes; and of Nationall transmigrations.
Aving premised the two former Tractates, as the two Eyes of Peregrinations ..."
6. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"... how few in comparison would be the coins of England scattered beneath the
surface. Design, I think, there must have been in these dispersions. ..."
7. Preadamites, Or, A Demonstration of the Existence of Men Before Adam by Alexander Winchell (1880)
"... of the Greek and the Sanscrit are in the speech of the most ignorant Swabian
and the most servile Slav. NOTE.—The annexed " Chart of dispersions of the ..."
8. A Discourse Concerning the Divine Providence by William Sherlock (1851)
"J These captivities and dispersions of Israel, especially the long captivity of
Judah in Babylon, served other ends besides the punishment and the cure of ..."
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