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Dispersal   /dɪspˈərsəl/   Listen
Dispersal

noun
1.
The act of dispersing or diffusing something.  Synonyms: diffusion, dispersion, dissemination.  "The diffusion of knowledge"






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"Dispersal" Quotes from Famous Books



... falls to mother earth in the act of feeding the clamorous young. Berries and seeds having no means of self-transportation are thus borne far from parent trees to vegetate in sweet unencumbered soil. Other birds take part in this generous dispersal, but none engage in it so systematically or ...
— The Confessions of a Beachcomber • E J Banfield

... the man in question happens to be a seaman, he will be included on A.F.Z.8 in the figures appearing in the square of intersection between the horizontal column opposite Industrial Group 2 and the vertical column for Dispersal Area Ib." ...
— Punch, Volume 156, January 22, 1919. • Various

... the general dispersal my people lived in snake skins, each family occupying a separate snake skin bag, and all were hung on the end of a rainbow, which swung around until the end touched Navajo Mountain, where the bags dropped from ...
— Eighth Annual Report • Various



Words linked to "Dispersal" :   crop-dusting, spraying, spread, disperse, spreading



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