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scattering
| scatteringly
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun scattering has 5 senses
- scattering(n = noun.quantity) sprinkling - a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly; "the first scatterings of green"; "a sprinkling of grey at his temples" is a kind of small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity
- scattering(n = noun.process) Array - the physical process in which particles are deflected haphazardly as a result of collisions; Array is a part of extinction
- scattering(n = noun.phenomenon) sprinkle, sprinkling - a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby; Array is a kind of rain shower, shower
- scattering(n = noun.event) dispersion - spreading widely or driving off; Array has particulars: diaspora, dissipation
- scattering(n = noun.act) scatter, strewing - the act of scattering; Array is a kind of spread, spreading
is a kind of action, activity, natural action, natural process
is a kind of spread, spreading
Derived form verb scatter1
Derived forms verb scatter4, verb scatter2, verb scatter1, verb scatter6
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scattering, a.
Going or falling in various directions; not united or aggregated; divided among many; as, scattering votes. [1913 Webster]
scattering, n.
Act of strewing about; something scattered. South. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
scattering
a few, aloofness, anarchy, attenuation, attenuative, bit, breakup, broadcast, broadcasting, chaos, circumfusion, confusion, crack-up, diffraction, diffractional, diffractive, diffusion, diffusive, dilution, discontinuity, discreteness, disintegration, disjunction, dislocation, disorder, dispensation, dispersal, dispersion, dispersive, disruption, dissemination, disseminative, dissipation, dissipative, dissolution, distribution, distributive, divergence, emanation, entropy, evaporation, exfoliation, expansion, few, fragmentation, handful, hint, incoherence, inconsistency, limited number, nonadhesion, noncohesion, only a few, peppering, piddling few, piddling number, propagation, publication, radiance, radiation, radius, ray, revolution, scaling, scatterment, separateness, shattering, shotgun pattern, small number, smatter, smattering, soupcon, sowing, spatter, spattering, splay, spoke, spread, spreading, sprinkling, strewing, suggestion, too few, trickle, trifle, unadherence, unadhesiveness, untenacity, volatilizationROGET THESAURUS
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Dispersion
N nonassemblage, dispersion, dispersion, disjunction, divergence, aspersion, scattering, dissemination, diffusion, dissipation, distribution, apportionment, spread, respersion, circumfusion, interspersion, spargefaction, affusion, waifs and estrays, flotsam and jetsam, disjecta membra waveson, unassembled &c (assemble), dispersed, sparse, dispread, broadcast, sporadic, widespread, epidemic, adrift, stray, disheveled, streaming, sparsim, here and there, passim.
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