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Definition of Dispersive
1. Adjective. Spreading by diffusion.
Similar to: Distributive
Derivative terms: Diffuse, Diffuse, Disperse, Disperse, Disseminate
Definition of Dispersive
1. a. Tending to disperse.
Definition of Dispersive
1. Adjective. That becomes dispersed ¹
2. Adjective. That causes dispersion ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dispersive
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Dispersive
1.
Tending to disperse.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dispersive
Literary usage of Dispersive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text Book, for the Use by Denison Olmsted (1832)
"Different bodies possess different dispersive powers. The dispersive powers of
a few of the most important substances in relation to the subject before us, ..."
2. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1872)
"Another element of great importance is the dispersive power, ... The dispersive
power of oil of cassia is much greater than that of flint glass, ..."
3. A Text-book of Physics by William Watson (1903)
"Define "dispersive power." Explain how to combine prisms so as to produce (a)
deviation without dispersion ; (/>) dispersion without deviation of a given ..."
4. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1906)
"... in connexion with the transmission of the energy of trains of dispersive waves*.
By J. LARMOR, MA, St John's College, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. ..."
5. Mirrors, Prisms and Lenses: A Text-book of Geometrical Optics by James Powell Cocke Southall (1918)
"dispersive Power of a Medium. — In the case of a prism of small refracting angle
ß the deviation is given by the formula e = (n—l)ß, as was explained in §60 ..."
6. The Relations between chemical constitution and some physical properties by Samuel Smiles (1910)
"dispersive POWER A"D CONSTITUTION The idea that some relation exists between ...
Representing the specific dispersive power of a substance by and the ..."
7. A System of Applied Optics: Being a Complete System of Formulæ of the Second by H. Dennis Taylor (1906)
"_ , = the dispersive power of the first lens or field lens, and —_^*j = the
dispersive power of the second or eye lens, and let the dispersive ratio AM M ..."
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