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Dispersal

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act or result of dispersing or scattering; dispersion. countable, uncountable

    "For a time, Okeh picked up the disk for national dispersal."

  2. 2
    the act of dispersing or diffusing something wordnet
  3. 3
    A dispersal prison. countable, uncountable

    "Problems of control in dispersals and in other prisons necessarily instigated a multiplicity of working theories to explain the difficulties […]"

Etymology

From disperse + -al.

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