Etymology From Middle French disperser, from Latin dispersus, past participle of dispergō (“to scatter abroad, disperse”), from dis- (“apart”) + spargō (“to scatter”); see sparse.
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To scatter in different directions.
The Jews are dispersed among all nations.
The lippes of the wiſe diſperſe knowledge: but the heart of the fooliſh, doeth not ſo.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 15:7, column 1:
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To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
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To disseminate.
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Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.
Etymology From Middle French disperser, from Latin dispersus, past participle of dispergō (“to scatter abroad, disperse”), from dis- (“apart”) + spargō (“to scatter”); see sparse.
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Scattered or spread out.
Australia itself is a very wide and very disperse country, where the distance problems significantly affect also the "internal" customer-supplier chains.1998, James-Yves Roger, Technologies for the Information Society: Developments and Opportunities:
In particular, a very crisp quantifier such as “for all,” “there exists,” “at least 50 percent” tend to have less disperse weighting vectors while fuzzier quantifiers such as many tend to have a more disperse weighting vector.2014, Didier J. Dubois, Readings in Fuzzy Sets for Intelligent Systems, page 85: