Definition of "disperse"

disperse

/dɪˈspɜːs/

verb
third-person singular simple present disperses, present participle dispersing, simple past and past participle dispersed
1. (transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions.
  Quotations
  The lippes of the wiſe diſperſe knowledge: but the heart of the fooliſh, doeth not ſo.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Proverbs 15:7, column 1
2. (transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To disseminate.
4. (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.
5. (transitive, intransitive) To distribute throughout.
adjective
comparative more disperse, superlative most disperse
1. Scattered or spread out.
  Quotations
  Australia itself is a very wide and very disperse country, where the distance problems significantly affect also the "internal" customer-supplier chains.
  1998, James-Yves Roger, Technologies for the Information Society: Developments and Opportunities
  In particular, a very crisp quantifier such as “for all,” “there exists,” “at least 50 percent” tend to have less disperse weighting vectors while fuzzier quantifiers such as many tend to have a more disperse weighting vector.
  2014, Didier J. Dubois, Readings in Fuzzy Sets for Intelligent Systems, page 85