Synonyms:
dispersion, scattering
Meaning: spreading widely or driving off
Usage examples
This was what really enabled the Trojans to keep the field for ten years against them; the dispersion of the enemy making them always a match for the detachment left behind.
A concave mirror forms an image just as a lens does, but since it does so without refraction or transmission through any substance, there is no accompanying dispersion or chromatic aberration.
If it were due to irregularities in the glass a second prism should rather increase them, but a second prism when held in appropriate position was able to neutralise the dispersion and to reproduce the simple round white spot without deviation. Evidently the spreading out of the beam was connected in some definite way with its refraction.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Glasses, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Titanium, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Fermi paradox, License CC BY-SA 4.0