What is another word for dispersion?

Pronunciation: [dɪspˈɜːʃən] (IPA)

Dispersion is a term used to describe the process of scattering or spreading out of a substance or object. There are several synonyms for the word "dispersion" which include diffusion, dissemination, scattering, distribution, dissemination, and propaga tion. Diffusion refers to the movement of molecules from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration. Dissemination is used to describe the distribution of information or ideas. Scattering is the process of spreading out of light waves or particles. Distribution means the allocation of resources or products in different locations or groups. Propagation is the process of transmitting information or energy from one place to another. These synonyms can be used interchangeably depending on the context.

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Dispersion, which refers to the scattering or spreading out of something, has a number of antonyms. These include words such as concentration, clustering, gathering, and consolidation. While dispersion suggests a lack of cohesion or concentration, concentration implies a gathering or focusing of energy, resources, or people. Clustering and gathering both suggest a coming together or grouping of items, while consolidation implies a strengthening or joining together of previously separate entities. Whether related to physical objects, people, or abstract concepts, these antonyms for dispersion all suggest a sense of coherence, organization, or unity that is absent from the idea of dispersion.

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Usage examples for Dispersion

The dispersion of the artistic wealth of Greek lands had flooded Italy with the works of the great masters.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
The melancholy end of the Conqueror, the strange occurrences at his interment, the violation of his grave, the dispersion of his remains, and the demolition and final removal of his monument, are circumstances calculated to excite melancholy emotions in the mind of every one, whatever his condition in life.
"Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. II. (of 2)"
Dawson Turner
Accounts from various parts of this land continue to indicate much unsettlement, and there have been large companies of Chartists in the immediate vicinity of London; but happily the civil power proved equal to their dispersion.
"Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel"
John Yeardley

Famous quotes with Dispersion

  • Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
  • David and his followers taught no new doctrines, in their dispersion or when they came to power, that can be brought to countenance thee at all in shaving off thy beard.
    Lord George Gordon
  • Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price.
    George Stigler
  • Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
  • Annihilation means, with the Buddhistical philosophy, only a dispersion of matter, in whatever form or semblance of form it may be; for everything that bears a shape was created, and thus must sooner or later perish, i.e., change that shape; therefore, as something temporary, though seeming to be permanent, it is but an illusion, Maya; for, as eternity has neither beginning nor end, the more or less prolonged duration of some particular form passes, as it were, like an instantaneous flash of lightning. Before we have the time to realize that we have seen it, it is gone and passed away for ever; hence, even our astral bodies, pure ether, are but illusions of matter, so long as they retain their terrestrial outline. The latter changes, says the Buddhist, according to the merits or demerits of the person during his lifetime, and this is metempsychosis. When the spiritual entity breaks loose for ever from every particle of matter, then only it enters upon the eternal and unchangeable Nirvana. He exists in spirit, in nothing; as a form, a shape, a semblance, he is completely annihilated, and thus will die no more, for spirit alone is no Maya, but the only REALITY in an illusionary universe of ever-passing forms.
    Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

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