Definition of Dispersed

1. Adjective. Distributed or spread over a considerable extent. "Eleven million Jews are spread throughout Europe"

Exact synonyms: Spread
Similar to: Distributed

Definition of Dispersed

1. a. Scattered.

Definition of Dispersed

1. Verb. (past of disperse) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dispersed

1. disperse [v] - See also: disperse

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dispersed

dispeptic
disperge
disperged
disperging
disperple
dispersal
dispersal habitat
dispersals
dispersant
dispersants
disperse
disperse phase
disperse placenta
dispersed
dispersed particles
dispersed phase
dispersedly
dispersedness
disperseness
disperser
dispersers
disperses
dispersibility
dispersible
dispersing
dispersing electrode
dispersing medium

Literary usage of Dispersed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Principles of Chemistry by Joel Henry Hildebrand (1918)
"CHAPTER XVIII Dispersed SYSTEMS IN Chapter II a distinction was made between heterogeneous and homogeneous material, between mechanical mixtures and ..."

2. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1876)
"A rather small but widely dispersed order, of which the following is the largest ... A genus of about 160 species, widely dispersed, but chiefly through the ..."

3. History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France: From the by William Francis Patrick Napier (1842)
"Suchet prepares to besiege Tarragona—The power of the partidas described—Their actioni —They are dispersed on the frontier of Aragon—The Valenciana fortify ..."

4. Mathematical and Physical Papers by Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Baron John William Strutt Rayleigh (1901)
"The dispersed light was most copious when the active light belonged to the neighbourhood of H. As the lens moved on the dispersed ..."

5. The History of British India by James Mill, Horace Hayman Wilson (1858)
"Mahratta army dispersed. — Contumacy of the Arab garrison. — City stormed. ... Dispersed. — Many of the Leaders surrender. — Lands — Treaty executed. ..."

6. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"... and the islands aro thick together, and mutually serve to connect the alluvium so as to prevent its being dispersed ; ai they Ho iu alternating rows, ..."

7. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"She spoke, and Hector knew the voice divine, And straight dispersed the assembly ; all to arms Rush'd, and the gates flew ope, and forth they stream'd ..."

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