Synonyms of the word

dispersion

• n. The state of being dispersed; dispersedness.
• n. A process of dispersing.
• n. The degree of scatter of data.
• n. (optics) The separation of visible light by refraction or diffraction.
• n. (medicine) The removal of inflammation.

diffusion

• n. the act of diffusing or dispersing something, or the property of being diffused or dispersed; dispersion.
• n. (physics) the scattering of light by reflection from a rough surface, or by passage through a translucent…
• n. (physics) the intermingling of the molecules of a fluid due to random thermal agitation.
• n. the spread of cultural or linguistic practices, or social institutions, in one or more communities.
• n. (physics, weather) Exchange of airborne media between regions in space in an apparently random motion…
• n. the movement of water vapor from regions of high concentration (high water vapor pressure) toward regions…

dispersal

• n. The act or result of dispersing or scattering; dispersion.

dissemination

• n. The act of disseminating, or the state of being disseminated; diffusion for propagation and permanence;…

distribution

• n. An act of distributing or state of being distributed.
• n. An apportionment by law (of funds, property).
• n. (business, marketing) The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including…
• n. The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.
• n. Anything distributed; portion; share.
• n. The result of distributing; arrangement.
• n. (mathematics, statistics) A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable…
• n. (computing) A set of bundled software components; distro.
• n. (economics) The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.
• n. (finance) The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors…
• n. (logic) The resolution of a whole into its parts.
• n. (printing, historical) The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the…
• n. (steam engines) The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder…
• n. (rhetoric) A rhetorical technique in which a subject is divided into multiple cases based on some property…

scattering

• v. present participle of scatter.
• n. A small quantity of something occurring at irregular intervals and dispersed at random points.
• n. (physics) The process whereby a beam of waves or particles is dispersed by collisions or similar interactions.

spacing

• v. present participle of space.
• n. The action of the verb space.
• n. A way in which objects or people are separated by spaces.
• n. The space between two objects or people.
• adj. That inserts space between two objects.

spread

• v. (transitive) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
• v. (transitive) To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.
• v. (transitive) To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
• v. (intransitive) To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
• v. (transitive) To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
• v. (intransitive) To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
• v. (transitive) To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
• v. (transitive) To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
• v. To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.
• n. The act of spreading.
• n. Something that has been spread.
• n. An expanse of land.
• n. A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
• n. A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
• n. A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
• n. (bread, etc.) Any form of food designed to be spread such as butters or jams.
• n. An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
• n. Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
• n. A numerical difference.
• n. (business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
• n. (trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another…
• n. (trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another…
• n. (trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery…
• n. (trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of…
• n. (trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.
• n. (finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items.
• n. (geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
• n. The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.

spreading

• v. present participle of spread.
• n. The act by which something is spread.