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dispersion
English
Etymology
From Middle English dispersioun, from Old French dispersion, from Latin dispertio
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??sp????n/
- Rhymes: -??(r)??n, -??(r)??n
Noun
dispersion (countable and uncountable, plural dispersions)
- The state of being dispersed; dispersedness.
- A process of dispersing.
- The degree of scatter of data.
- (optics) The separation of visible light by refraction or diffraction.
- (medicine) The removal of inflammation.
Related terms
- dispersal, dispersivity
Translations
References
- Chambers's Etymological Dictionary, 1896, p. 131
Anagrams
- pieds noirs
Danish
Noun
dispersion c (singular definite dispersionen, plural indefinite dispersioner)
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Declension
Further reading
- “dispersion” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dis.p??.sj??/
Noun
dispersion f (plural dispersions)
- dispersion
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distract
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin distractus, from distrah? (“to pull apart”), from dis- + trah? (“to pull”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?s?t?ækt/
- Rhymes: -ækt
Verb
distract (third-person singular simple present distracts, present participle distracting, simple past and past participle distracted)
- (transitive) To divert the attention of.
- (transitive) To make crazy or insane; to drive to distraction.
Related terms
- distracted
- distractible
- distracting
- distraction
Translations
Adjective
distract (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Separated; drawn asunder.
- (obsolete) Insane; mad.
- 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 6 p. 3[1]:
- (Alone shee beeing left the spoyle of love and death,
- In labour of her griefe outrageously distract,
- The utmost of her spleene on her false lord to act)
- 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 6 p. 3[1]:
See also
- distraught
Anagrams
- adstrict
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