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Noun spattering has 2 senses

• spattering(n = noun.event) spatter, splatter, splattering, splutter, sputter, sputtering - the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively; "he heard a spatter of gunfire"
is a kind of noise

• spattering(n = noun.act) spatter, splash, splashing, splattering - the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface; Array
is a kind of painting
Derived form verb spatter₁

THESAURUS

spattering

affusion, aspergation, aspersion, attenuation, baptism, bath, bathing, beating, bedewing, broadcast, broadcasting, circumfusion, clicking, dampening, damping, deluge, dewing, diffraction, diffusion, dilution, dispensation, dispersal, dispersion, dissemination, dissipation, distribution, divergence, drowning, drumming, evaporation, expansion, few, flooding, fluttering, fragmentation, handful, hosing, hosing down, humidification, immersion, inundation, irrigation, laving, moistening, palpitant, peppering, pounding, propagation, publication, radiation, rinsing, scattering, scatterment, shotgun pattern, smatter, smattering, sowing, sparging, spatter, splashing, splattering, splay, spluttering, spraying, spread, spreading, sprinkling, sputtering, staccato, strewing, submersion, swashing, throbbing, thrumming, thumping, ticking, volatilization, watering, wetting

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