Dispersal

noun

noun ·3 syllables ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

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 […]"

Synonyms

All synonyms
dispersionaloofnessanarchyattenuationbreakupbroadcast

Example

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"Kathryn Stoner is a research ecologist at the National University of Mexico. She has been studying how certain monkeys contribute to seed dispersal in a tropical forest in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas."

Etymology

From disperse + -al.

Related phrases

dispersal accommodationradiological dispersal device

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