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Definition of Dispersion

1. Noun. Spreading widely or driving off.

2. Noun. The spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume. "In complementary distribution"

3. Noun. The act of dispersing or diffusing something. "The diffusion of knowledge"

Definition of Dispersion

1. n. The act or process of scattering or dispersing, or the state of being scattered or separated; as, the Jews in their dispersion retained their rites and ceremonies; a great dispersion of the human family took place at the building of Babel.

Definition of Dispersion

1. Noun. The state of being dispersed; dispersedness. ¹

2. Noun. A process of dispersing. ¹

3. Noun. The degree of scatter of data. ¹

4. Noun. (optics) The separation of visible light by refraction or diffraction. ¹

5. Noun. (medicine) The removal of inflammation. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dispersion

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Medical Definition of Dispersion

1. The variation of refractive index with colour (or wave-length) of light. The spreading of white light into its component colours when passing through a glass prism is due to dispersion which, in turn, is due to the fact that the refractive index of transparent substances is lower for long wavelengths than for-short wavelengths. A measure of dispersion is defined as: nD - 1 v= nF-nC where nD = refractlve index at 589 nm (yellow), nF = 486 nm (blue), nC = 656 nm (red). (05 Aug 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dispersion

dispersed phase dispersedly dispersedness disperseness disperser dispersers disperses dispersibility dispersible dispersing

dispersing electrode dispersing medium dispersing phase dispersingly dispersion (current term) dispersion colloid dispersion force dispersion medium dispersion phase dispersion relation

dispersion staining dispersionless dispersions dispersity dispersive dispersive model dispersively dispersiveness dispersivities

Literary usage of Dispersion

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

1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1902)
"Anomalous dispersion of"Sodium Vapour. lie Anomalous dispersion of Sodium Vapour." By BW WOOD, Professor of Physics in the University of Wisconsin. ..."

2. Physical Optics by Robert Williams Wood (1914)
"CHAPTER XIV THE THEORY OF dispersion PREVIOUS to the discovery of anomalous dispersion, all that was required of a dispersion theory was a satisfactory ..."

3. The Astrophysical Journal by American Astronomical Society, University of Chicago (1905)
"They are due to anomalous dispersion and, therefore, the name dispersion bands has been suggested for them.3 dispersion bands always appear in the proximity ..."

4. Manual of Petrographic Methods by Albert Johannsen (1918)
"In biaxial crystals the effect of dispersion is not so simply shown, ... The result is that there may be a dispersion of the optic axial angle, ..."

5. Manual of Petrographic Methods by Albert Johannsen (1918)
"CHAPTER XXXI dispersion OF LIGHT IN CRYSTALS 380. Normal and Anomalous dispersion.—When a beam of white light is refracted by a transparent medium, ..."

6. Measurements for Competitiveness in Electronics (1994)
"Table 84 Attenuation and dispersion in Optical Fibers Wavelength Attenuation per Kilometer Chromatic dispersion (nanometers) (decibels) (percent) (relative) ..."

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