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spreading
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sp??d??/
- Rhymes: -?d??
Verb
spreading
- present participle of spread
Translations
Noun
spreading (plural spreadings)
- The act by which something is spread.
- 1991, Samuel D. Robbins, Wisconsin Birdlife: Population & Distribution Past & Present (page 579)
- Small numbers [of meadowlarks] remain on farms in the southern counties throughout the winter, usually relying on fresh manure spreadings for food when snow covers the fields.
- 1991, Samuel D. Robbins, Wisconsin Birdlife: Population & Distribution Past & Present (page 579)
Translations
Anagrams
- respading
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diffusion
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin diffusionem (accusative of diffusio), from diffund?; can be decomposed as diffuse +? -ion.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??fju???n/
- Rhymes: -u???n
Noun
diffusion (countable and uncountable, plural diffusions)
- The act of diffusing or dispersing something, or the property of being diffused or dispersed; dispersion.
- (physics) The scattering of light by reflection from a rough surface, or by passage through a translucent medium.
- (physics) The intermingling of the molecules of a fluid due to random thermal agitation.
- The spread of cultural or linguistic practices, or social institutions, in one or more communities.
- (marketing) The gradual spread and adoption of goods or services.
- (physics, weather) Exchange of airborne media between regions in space in an apparently random motion of a small scale.
- The movement of water vapor from regions of high concentration (high water vapor pressure) toward regions of lower concentration.
Translations
See also
- diffuser
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin diffusio, diffusionem. Synchronically analysable as diffuser +? -ion.
Noun
diffusion f (plural diffusions)
- broadcasting, showing
- dissemination, diffusion (of culture, knowledge, etc.)
- circulation (of a news medium)
- (physics) diffusion
Derived terms
- liste de diffusion
Related terms
- diffus
- diffuser
See also
- émission
Further reading
- “diffusion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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