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scatteration

scatteration noun: a scattered arrangement.

Noun

scatteration (countable and uncountable, plural scatterations)

  1. A scattered arrangement.
    • Maybe there are still readers who can be stirred by such stale fancies as that seedlike scatteration of stars — does anybody except a writer in search of a metaphor really see stars that way?2009 August 16, David Gates, “Sensimilia and Sensibility”, in New York Times

Forms of scatteration

pluralscatterations

Origin of scatteration

From scatter + -ation.

Questions about scatteration

What does scatteration mean?
Scatteration means a scattered arrangement.
What part of speech is scatteration?
Scatteration is a noun.
What is the plural of scatteration?
The plural of scatteration is scatterations.

Words near scatteration in the dictionary

  1. scatter-plot
  2. scatter-stories
  3. scatter-story
  4. scatter/gather
  5. scatterable
  6. scatteration
  7. scatterations
  8. scatterbrain
  9. scatterbrained
  10. scatterbrainedness
  11. scatterbrains

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