2. Adverb. With regard to dispersion. ¹
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Definition of Dispersively
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dispersively
Literary usage of Dispersively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1844)
"... operating no doubt with others of which it is unnecessary to speak, have acted
dispersively on the sum of national reputations, and equitably allotted ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1872)
"... to his great discovery of the change of periodic time experienced by light in
falling on certain substances and being dispersively reflected from them. ..."
3. Popular Lectures and Addresses by William Thomson Kelvin (1894)
"... to his great discovery of the change of periodic time experienced by light in
falling on certain substances and being dispersively reflected from them. ..."
4. A Text Book of the Principles of Physics by Alfred Daniell (1895)
"Parallel sunlight falls from behind the spectator; in each drop the light is
dispersively refracted, and then reflected from the farther face of the drop; ..."
5. Melbourne, and the Chincha Islands: With Sketches of Lima, and a Voyage by George Washington Peck (1854)
"which operates at once dispersively upon any little street dispute that is
accompanied with high words and fist shaking. ..."
6. The Microscope in Theory and Practice by Karl Wilhelm Naegeli, Simon Schwendener (1892)
"Since the hollow cylinder acts optically as a concave lens, such portions also
act dispersively upon the incident light. The two principal points coincide ..."
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