dispersive
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- adjective
- /dɪsˈpɜːrsɪv/
- Specialized
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dispersivo
- Schools stress and reward dispersive intelligence, which is the area 2e students struggle with the most.
- dispersive signal
- dispersive and nonlinear
- dispersive intelligence
Examples
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In nature, pulses have a tendency to broaden during propagation in a dispersive linear medium.
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In a dispersive medium, sound waves tend to spread out as they travel farther.
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No matter if this system is dispersive or not dispersive using this approach.
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This is actually telling you that this is a dispersive median, right?
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A number of scientists say the dispersive wave distance, it's unlikely to cause a tsunami...
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Conversely, 2e students struggle with dispersive intelligence, the ability to memorize discrete isolated facts.
Academic text (2015) -
Light behaves in a dispersive manner as it passes through a prism, separating into different colors.
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During the experiment, we observed how the dispersive forces caused the dye to spread throughout the water.
Synonyms
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Spreads slowly through a material, like ink in water
Causing particles to spread out evenly in a liquid or mixture
Relating to the slow movement of tiny particles through a material from crowded to less crowded areas
Likely to spread widely, for example news or disease
Spreading through a place or group and affecting everything there
Spreading a soft color or feeling slowly over something
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dispersive comes from dis- 'apart' and sperse 'to scatter', the same root as disperse and sparse. So a dispersive material or process is one that makes things like particles, sound waves, or light spread out or separate, as when a prism splits white light into colors.