Synonyms of the word

spreading

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

airing

• v. present participle of air.
• n. (uncountable) An exposure to warm or fresh air.
• n. (countable) A public expression of an opinion or discussion of a subject.

diffusing

• v. present participle of diffuse.

diffusive

• adj. Of, pertaining to, or caused by diffusion.

dispersive

• adj. That becomes dispersed.
• adj. That causes dispersion.

disseminating

• v. present participle of disseminate.

dissemination

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

disseminative

• adj. Tending to disseminate, or to become disseminated.

distributive

• adj. Relating to distribution.
• adj. Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing a proper share to each.
• adj. (mathematics) A property of functions that have a rule describing how the function can be performed to…
• adj. (logic) Assigning the species of a general term.
• adj. (grammar) Expressing separation; denoting a taking singly, not collectively.
• n. (grammar) A distributive adjective or pronoun.
• n. (mathematics) A distributive numeral.

extension

• n. The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in length or breadth;…
• n. That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension").
• n. A part of a building that has been extended from the original.
• n. (semantics) Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; —…
• n. (banking, finance) A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay…
• n. (medicine) The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight…
• n. (weightlifting) An exercise in which an arm or leg is straightened against resistance.
• n. (fencing) A simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward.
• n. (telecommunications) A numerical code used to specify a specific telephone in a telecommunication network.
• n. (computing) A file extension.
• n. (computing) An optional software component that adds functionality to an application.
• n. (logic) The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, satisfy the predicate.
• n. (grammar) A kind of derivative morpheme applied to verbs in Bantu languages.

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.

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.

transmission

• n. The act of transmitting, e.g. data or electric power.
• n. The fact of being transmitted.
• n. Something that is transmitted, such as a message, picture or a disease; the sending of such a thing.
• n. (biology) The passage of a nerve impulse across synapses.
• n. (automotive) An assembly of gears through which power is transmitted from the engine to the driveshaft…
• n. (law) The right possessed by an heir or legatee of transmitting to his successor(s) any inheritance, legacy,…
• n. (medicine, biology) The passing of a communicable disease from an infected host individual or group to…

travel

• v. (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place…
• v. (intransitive) To pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another.
• v. (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
• v. (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).
• v. (transitive) To force to journey.
• v. (obsolete) To labour; to travail.
• n. The act of traveling.
• n. pl A series of journeys.
• n. pl An account of one's travels.
• n. The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
• n. The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
• n. (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.