diffusion
Syllables: dif·fu·sion/dɪˈfjuː.ʒən/US/dɪˈfju.ʒən/
diffusion noun: the act of diffusing or dispersing something, or the property of being diffused or dispersed; dispersion.
Noun
diffusion (countable and uncountable, plural diffusions)
- The act of diffusing or dispersing something, or the property of being diffused or dispersed; dispersion.
- The scattering of light by reflection from a rough surface, or by passage through a translucent medium.
- The intermingling of the molecules of a fluid due to random thermal agitation.
- gaseous diffusion
- The spread of cultural or linguistic practices, or social institutions, in one or more communities.
- Even the false-necked vase, though it reaches its widest diffusion at this epoch, is, as we have seen, a type found existing in much earlier strata.1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 99
- The gradual spread and adoption of goods or services.
- The chief salesman of the A.I. boom, Sam Altman of OpenAI, said there was more resistance to “the diffusion, the absorption” of A.I. into the culture and economy than he expected.2026 February 21, David Streitfeld, quoting Sam Altman, “People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
- Exchange of airborne media between regions in space in an apparently random motion of a small scale.
- The movement of water vapor from regions of high concentration (high water vapor pressure) toward regions of lower concentration.
diffusion meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Telugu
diffusion in Hindi
- in physics, scattering of light
- विसरण visaraṇ
- in physics, intermingling of molecules
- विसरण visaraṇ
diffusion in Tamil
- விரவுதல், விரவல், கலப்பு, பரவல், ஊடுபரவல், பரப்புதல்
diffusion in Bengali
- diffusion, circulation
- প্রসার prôsar
diffusion in Telugu
- diffusion, pervading, spreading
- వ్యాపనము vyāpanamu, వ్యాపించుట vyāpiñcuṭa
More languagesFewer languages
- diffusion in Malayalam
- അന്തർവ്യാപനം, പ്രസരിപ്പിക്കൽ
- diffusion in Kannada
- ಹರಡುವಿಕೆ, ಪ್ರಸಾರಣ, ಚದರುವಿಕೆ
- diffusion in Nepali
- प्रसरण
- diffusion in Tagalog
- panunuot
- diffusion in Arabic
- اِنْتِشَار intišār
- diffusion in Indonesian
- difusi
- diffusion in Persian
- انتشار entešâr
Examples of diffusion in a sentence
- Lepromatoid or lepromatous leprosy is distinguished from tuberculoid leprosy by the greater diffusion of skin complaints.
- The high recombination effect caused slower diffusion of injected electrons in the photoanode.
- In our study there was no early rise of tissue diffusion or pseudodiffusion values.
Forms of diffusion
| plural | diffusions |
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Origin of diffusion
Borrowed from Latin diffūsiō, from diffundō; can be decomposed as diffuse + -ion.
Words formed from diffusion
- autodiffusion
- biodiffusion
- cultural diffusion
- diffusional
- diffusion-barrier
- diffusion hypoxia
- diffusionism
- diffusionist
- diffusionless
- diffusiophoretic
- elastodiffusion
- electrodiffusion
- error diffusion
- hydrodiffusion
- hyperdiffusion
- immunodiffusion
- interdiffusion
- microdiffusion
- photodiffusion
- prediffusion
- pseudodiffusion
- rediffusion
- rotodiffusion
- self-diffusion
- subdiffusion
- superdiffusion
- thermodiffusion
- vibrodiffusion
Words that rhyme with diffusion
Questions about diffusion
- What does diffusion mean?
- Diffusion means the act of diffusing or dispersing something, or the property of being diffused or dispersed; dispersion.
- What is diffusion in Hindi?
- Diffusion in Hindi is विसरण (visaraṇ). See Diffusion meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is diffusion?
- Diffusion is a noun.
- How do you pronounce diffusion?
- Diffusion is pronounced /dɪˈfjuː.ʒən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of diffusion?
- The plural of diffusion is diffusions.
Words near diffusion in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: diffusion (page history and authors); diffusion (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); প্রসার (Bengali) (page history and authors); వ్యాపనము (Telugu) (page history and authors); diffusion (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); diffusion (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); diffusion (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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