Definition of "scattered"

scattered

/ˈskætɚd/

verb
1. simple past and past participle of scatter
adjective
comparative more scattered, superlative most scattered
1. Dispersed, spread apart into disunited units.
  Quotations
  And when their ſcattered armie is ſubdu’d:And you march on their ſlaughtered carkaſſes,Share equally the gold that bought their liues,And liue like Gentlmen in Perſea, […]
  c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, Act II, scene ii
2. Seemingly randomly distributed.
  Quotations
  There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
  1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
3. (meteorology, of clouds) Covering three eighths to four eighths of the sky.
4. (meteorology, of precipitation) Affecting 30 percent to 50 percent of a forecast zone.