dispersion

Definitions

The action or process of distributing things or people over a wide area.

The separation of white light into colors, especially by a prism.

The extent to which values in a statistical distribution differ from the mean.

Examples

The prism caused a beautiful dispersion of light into a spectrum of colors.

The dispersion of seeds by the wind is a common method for plant reproduction.

Synonyms

scattering diffusion distribution spread dissemination dissipation separation

Antonyms

collection accumulation concentration gathering assembly aggregation amalgamation