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Definition: Dispersal |
DispersalNoun1. The act of dispersing or diffusing something; "the dispersion of the troops"; "the diffusion of knowledge". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dispersal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
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Avian | The movement of organisms away from the place of birth or from centers of population density (Ricklefs 1979:868) (see Breeding dispersal, Natal dispersal). (references) |
Building & Civil Engineering | E. the studies reflect the current condition of the planning profession, which is ambivalent toward the automobile and split on the issue of centralization V --. Source: European Union. (references) |
Environment | The transmission of waste and other residues to the environment. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | The compulsory transfer of a large numer of . . . . civil servants. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: DispersalSynonyms: diffusion (n), dispersion (n), dissemination (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: decentralisation (public administration). |
Crosswords: Dispersal |
| English words defined with "dispersal": radially. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dispersal": Accidents, Radiation, aircraft dispersal area ♦ Breeding dispersal ♦ campylidia ♦ dispersal by added waveforms ♦ injection well ♦ Peterloo ♦ Source population ♦ TINC ♦ water-borne dispersal of micro-organisms. (references) |
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Screenplays | This is information retrieval not information dispersal. (Brazil; writing credit: Terry Gilliam; Charles McKeown) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Throughout the tropics, seed dispersal and pollination activities by bats are vital to rain forest survival. (references) | |
Business | The major projects planned by these two utilities are Secondary Transmission Lines And Grid Stations Projects for Ghazi Barotha, Transmission Arrangements for Power Dispersal of Ghazi Barotha Hydro Power Project, and Karachi Electric Supply Corporation's (KESC) Sixth Project. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Ghana | No investigation was conducted into the forcible dispersal of demonstrations in July and December 2000. The Constitution provides for freedom of association, and the Government generally respects this right in practice. (references) |
United Kingdom | In October the Institute of Race Relations published a report critical of the Government's policies of dispersal and detention of asylum seekers, and the voucher system used to provide them with food and other necessities. (references) | |
Human Rights | Uganda | There also were no developments in the case in which Major Dick Bugingo, a commanding officer in the PPU, was summoned by the UHRC tribunal on charges that he tortured Sergeant Godfrey Mubiru in March 2000. There were no reports of any action taken against the responsible members of the police who beat or otherwise abused persons in the following cases from 2000: The September forcible dispersal of a Uganda Young Democrats (UYD) meeting in Gulu; the June beating of 11 Makerere University students; the April beating of Ahmed Washaki, an official of the Uganda People's Congress (UPC); and the March forcible dispersal of an unauthorized rally in Mbarara. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Dispersal" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dispersal" is used about 272 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 272 | 17,812 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "dispersal": aircraft dispersal area ♦ convoy dispersal point ♦ dispersal apron ♦ dispersal area ♦ dispersal by added waveforms ♦ dispersal field ♦ fog dispersal. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "dispersal": wind-dispersal. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
seed dispersal | 29 |
device dispersal radiological | 5 |
dispersal plant seed | 5 |
dispersal | 4 |
device dispersal radiation | 3 |
device dispersal radioactivity | 3 |
b b between capitulum dispersal pre relationship seed size | 3 |
brown dispersal swiss | 2 |
dispersal seed wind | 2 |
dispersal sale | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "dispersal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shpërndarje (allocation, apportion, deal, delivery, deployment, diaspora, diffusion, dismissal, dismission, dispensation, dispersion, dissipation, dissolution, distribution, division, layout, share out, spread, spreading), shpërhapje. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تطاير (volatility, volatilize), تشتيت (dispersion), تبديد (dispersion, dissipation, removal, scattering, squandering, waste), تبدد (clear, death, dispersion, dissipate, fly, go to waste, recede, tarnish), التبديد, الانتثار, إنفصالية, إنتشار (currency, diffusion, expansion, pervasion, prevalence, propagation, scattering, spread, suffusion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разсейване (aberration, avocation, diffusion, dispersion, dissipation, distraction, scattering), разпръскване (diffusion, dispersion, dissemination, dissipation, scattering), разпиляване (dilapidation, dispersion, distribution, spillage, spreading). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | disperze, rozptyl (diffusion, dispersion, scatter, stray), rozptýlení (dissipation, distraction), rozehnání. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | spredning (deconcentration, devolution, dispersion, distribution, diverging, probable error, range, regulating, scatter, scattering, shaping, span, spread, spreading, standard deviation, stray). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | verspreiding (propaganda, publicity), spreiding (decentralisation, dispersion, diverging, spread, standard deviation, to set up in the provinces). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پراکندگی (Sprawl). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | levitys (seismic spread, seismometer spread, seismometre spread, spread). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | dispersion (dispersion, dissipation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zerstreuung (absence of mind, absent-mindedness, allaying, diffusion, dispelling, dissipation, distractibility, distraction, diversion, removal, scattering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | απόρριψη (disallowance, dismissal, rejection, shedding), διασκορπισμόσ, διασπορά (diaspora, dispersion, spreading). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פזור (demilitarization, diffusion, dispersion, dissipation, distribution, scatter, scattered, scattering, spread), "תפזרות. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szétszórtság (dispersion, dispersity), szórás (combing out, diffraction, diffusion, dispersion, killing circle, pointing error, scatter, scattering, spread, sprinkling), szétszóródás (diffusion, dispersion, dissipation, scattering, skedaddle, spreading), szétszórás (diffusion, disarrangement, dissipation, scattering, spreading), diszperzió (dispersion), diaszpóra (diaspora, dispersion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pengusiran (eviction, expulsion), pembubaran (abrogation, dismissal, dispersion, dissolution, liquidation), bubaran. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | dispersione (disbandment, dispersion, dissipation, leakage, scattering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 疎開 (deployment, evacuation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | そかい (a cherished hope, concession, deployment, evacuation, settlement), ひさ" (arsenic acid, disaster, flying, misery, pitiful, scattering, tragedy, wretched), りさ" (scattering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ispersalday dispersão no meio ambiente, despovoar (depopulate, desolate, unpeople). (various references) dispersare (break up, decomposition, dispersion), împrãştiere (disbandment, dissipation). (various references) рассеивание (diffusion, dispersion, dissemination, dissipation). (various references) rasturanje (dissipation, scatter), rastur (outage), osipanje (attrition). (various references) dispersión (breakup, dispersion, dissipation, pattern, scatter, scattering). (various references) spridning (circulation, cirkulation, currency, deployment, diffusion, dispersion, distribution, passage, proliferation). (various references) dağıtım (circulation, deploy, dispensation, dispersion, distributing, distribution, distributive, dividing, division, handling, repartition), dağılma (breakup, creepage, diffusibility, diffusion, disbandment, disintegration, dispersion, dissolution, distribution, sprawl, spread, tapping), yayılma (contagion, creep, creepage, deploy, deployment, diffusion, distribution, enlargement, expanse, expansiveness, metastasis, pervasion, propagation, sprawl, spread, suffusion). (various references) розсіювання (dissipation, scatter, scattering), поширення (amplification, circulation, diffusion, dispersion, distribution, occurrence, outspread, pervasion, prevalence, prevalency, proliferation, promulgation, propagation, spread, spreading). (various references) sự tan tác sự rải rác (dispersion), sự phân tán sự xua tan, sự l m tan tác (dispersion), sự gieo vãi sự gieo rắc (dispersion), sự giải tán (discharge, dispersion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | discessionem. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dispersal": dispersals. (additional references) | |
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"Dispersal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dispers, Duperval. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dispersal" (pronounced di'sper"sul) |
| 4 | -er" s u l | rehearsal, reversal, Tercel, universal. |
| 3 | -s u l | antimissile, apostle, Axel, axle, basal, brasil, bristle, bustle, cancel, capsule, Castle, colossal, consul, council, counsel, diesel, dismissal, docile, dorsal, epistle, facile, fissile, fossil, gracile, gristle, Hansel, Hassel, hassle, housel, hustle, imbecile, jostle, microfossil, missal, missel, missile, morsel, mucosal, muscle, mussel, Nestle, parcel, Passel, pencil, pixel, Proconsul, rustle, stencil, tassel, Tattersall, tensile, Thistle, tinsel, tonsil, Tressel, trestle, tussle, unsell, utensil, vassal, vessel, whistle, wrestle. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-l-p-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: despairs, dripless, parslied, spiraled. | |
-2 letters: aidless, airless, alipeds, apsides, aspired, aspires, derails, despair, dialers, diapers, dispels, elapids, espials, lapides, lapises, lapsers, lipases, lispers, palsied, palsies, paresis, parises, pedlars, pleiads, praised, praises, predial, prissed, rassled, redials, resails, sailers, salpids, serails, serials, sidlers, sliders, spaders, sparids, spiders, spirals, spireas, spreads. | |
-3 letters: aiders, aisled, aisles, alders. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-l-p-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: dispersals, redisplays. | |
+2 letters: dealerships, displeasure, espadrilles, leaderships. | |
+3 letters: displeasures, personalised, slipstreamed. | |
+4 letters: perissodactyl. | |
+5 letters: depersonalizes, disrespectable, landownerships, perissodactyls, preestablished, superdiplomats, superinsulated. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 70 65 72 73 61 6C |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... .--. . .-. ... .- .-.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110011 01110000 01100101 01110010 01110011 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s p e r s a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 0070 0065 0072 0073 0061 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387585827184856778 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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