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Meanings of dispersal in English

Portuguese
desagregação
Catalan
disgregació
Spanish
dispersión

The act of dispersing or diffusing something.

        desagregação
        Usage of dispersal in English
        1
        Our population model included complex dispersal processes to account for these movements.
        The South African
        2
        In one cluster, however, males showed a dispersal pattern similar to females.
        Pubmed
        3
        However, for most of these chemicals, resistance and dispersal mechanisms are unknown.
        Pubmed
        4
        The mall was among dozens of buildings set afire following the dispersal.
        Reuters
        5
        The first such change affected wild mechanisms for the dispersal of seeds.
        Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies
        6
        Native trees don't have seed banks, they rely on dispersal, he says.
        Radio NZ
        7
        Airbus showed similar findings, while Embraer tested droplet dispersal from a cough.
        Reuters
        8
        Boats and human figures moved about in dispersal patterns close to real.
        Woken furies
        9
        It is evident, therefore, that they have some natural means of dispersal.
        The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2 / The Land of the Orang-utan and...
        10
        The effect of these operations was the dispersal of Osman Digna's gathering.
        The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
        11
        The autotrophic activity at the initial phase of plume dispersal is low.
        Pubmed
        12
        An odd unhurriedness to the movement, a unifying lack of purposive dispersal.
        The apocalypse reader
        13
        Setting the beam to widest dispersal, she fanned it over the river.
        The Hyperion Cantos
        14
        Is the glutin secreted to secure the wide dispersal of the seeds?
        The Confessions of a Beachcomber
        15
        Every dispersal, every separation of single divisions was bound to prove fatal.
        Banzai! by Parabellum
        16
        However, viral origins and dispersal patterns at a global scale remain poorly understood.
        Pubmed
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        Translations for dispersal
        Dispersal through the time
        Dispersal across language varieties
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