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1. Spreading widely or driving off
   - scattering
    
2. The spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume
   "worldwide in dispersion"
   - distribution
    
3. The act of dispersing or diffusing something
   "the dispersion of the troops"
   - dispersal, dissemination, diffusion

Derived forms: dispersions

See also: disperse

Type of: spacing, spatial arrangement, spread, spreading

Encyclopedia: Dispersion