dispersion
/dɪˈspɜrʒən/
noun
- The process of spreading or scattering things over an area.
- Urban planning aims to reduce the dispersion of traffic across residential streets.
- The dispersion of seeds by wind helps plants colonize new areas.
- The dispersion of light through a prism creates a rainbow.
- A mixture in which small particles of one substance are spread throughout another substance.
- Paint is a dispersion of pigment particles in a liquid.
- The chemist prepared a stable dispersion of nanoparticles in water.
- Milk is a natural dispersion of fat globules in a watery fluid.
- In statistics, the degree to which data points are spread out from the average.
- Standard deviation is a common measure of dispersion in a data set.
- Low dispersion means most values are close to the mean.
- The dispersion of test scores was higher this year, showing a wider range of results.
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