scattered
adjUS /ˈskætɚd/ · UK /ˈskætəd/
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Dispersed, spread apart into disunited units.
- scattered applause
- And when their ſcattered armie is ſubdu’d: And you march on their ſlaughtered carkaſſes, Share equally the gold that bought their liues, And liue like Gentlmen in Perſea, […]c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene ii:
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- The surroundings become bleak in the extreme as the timber line is approached and trees give place to thinly scattered birches that are little more than bushes.1957 August 23, H. A. Vallance, “By Rail to the Norwegian Arctic”, in Railway Magazine, page 574:
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Seemingly randomly distributed.
- There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs,[…], and all these articles[…] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
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Climatology, Meteorology, Natural sciences Of clouds Covering three eighths to four eighths of the sky.
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Climatology, Meteorology, Natural sciences Of precipitation Affecting 30 percent to 50 percent of a forecast zone.
- Scattered showers.
- Derived terms
- nonscattered, overscattered, rescattered, scattered disc, scatteredly, scatteredness, scattered shower, unscattered, upscattered