dispersion
UK/dɪˈspɜːʒən//dɪˈspɝʒən/
dispersion noun: the state of being dispersed.
Noun
dispersion (countable and uncountable, plural dispersions)
- The state of being dispersed.
- Synonyms:
- dispersedness
- A process of dispersing.
- Synonyms:
- dispersal
- The degree of scatter of data.
- The separation of waves of different frequency in space or time; the amount of such separation.
- The removal of inflammation.
dispersion meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
dispersion in Hindi
- dispersion, deflection
- विक्षेपण vikṣepaṇ
dispersion in Tamil
- நிறப்பிரிகை, நிறப்பிரிக்கை, அலைப்பிரிகை, பிரிகை, பிரிக்கை, கலைதல்
dispersion in Urdu
- بکھراؤ, انتشار, پراگندگی, پھیلاؤ
dispersion in Bengali
- বিচ্ছুরণ, বিচ্ছুরন
More languagesFewer languages
- dispersion in Telugu
- పటాపంచలు paṭāpañcalu
- dispersion in Punjabi
- ਖਿੰਡਾਅ
- dispersion in Odia
- ବିଚ୍ଛୁରଣ
- dispersion in Pashto
- خپرونه xparawə́na
- dispersion in Tagalog
- pagkalat, kakalatan
- dispersion in Arabic
- تَشَتُّت tašattut
Examples of dispersion in a sentence
- Such a revival is a revival of spent forces, that can gather only for an early and more complete dispersion.
- This technique provides new degrees of freedom and enhanced flexibility in engineering the dispersion of microcomb resonators..
- At low condensate density, the topology of the single-particle bands is transferred to the bogolon dispersion.
Synonyms of dispersion
Forms of dispersion
| plural | dispersions |
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Origin of dispersion
From disperse + -ion, from Middle English dispersioun, from Old French dispersion, from Latin dispersiō.
Words formed from dispersion
- antidispersion
- biodispersion
- dedispersion
- dispersionless
- electrodispersion
- equidispersion
- hyperdispersion
- hypodispersion
- isodispersion
- London dispersion force
- macrodispersion
- magnetodispersion
- microdispersion
- nanodispersion
- nondispersion
- optical rotatory dispersion
- overdispersion
- pigment dispersion syndrome
- polydispersion
- redispersion
- thermodispersion
- underdispersion
- velocity dispersion
Phrases with dispersion
Words that rhyme with dispersion
- reversion
- version
- immersion
- Persian
- diversion
- perversion
- introversion
- incursion
- recursion
- retroversion
- circumversion
- subversion
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Questions about dispersion
- What does dispersion mean?
- Dispersion means the state of being dispersed.
- What is dispersion in Hindi?
- Dispersion in Hindi is विक्षेपण (vikṣepaṇ). See Dispersion meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is dispersion?
- Dispersion is a noun.
- How do you pronounce dispersion?
- Dispersion is pronounced /dɪˈspɜːʒən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of dispersion?
- The plural of dispersion is dispersions.
Words near dispersion in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: dispersion (page history and authors); विक्षेपण (Hindi) (page history and authors); dispersion (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dispersion (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dispersion (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); పటాపంచలు (Telugu) (page history and authors); dispersion (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dispersion (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); خپرونه (Pashto) (page history and authors). 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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