1. the action or process of distributing things or people over a wide area
2. the separation of white light into colors or of any radiation according to wavelength
Usage: physics; optics
3. the degree to which values in a statistical distribution are spread out from the average
Usage: statistics

Examples

• The dispersion of seeds by wind helps plants colonize new areas.
• Police ordered the dispersion of the crowd after the rally ended.
• The prism caused dispersion of the white light into a rainbow.
• Light dispersion creates the beautiful colors we see in soap bubbles.
• The researcher calculated the dispersion of test scores across different schools.
• A high dispersion in the data suggests significant variation among participants.