the act or an instance of dispersing, or the state of being dispersed
in chemistry, the even spread of a substance in particle form throughout a colloid or suspension; the substance so dispersed
in statistics, the extent to which the values of a frequency distribution vary
in physics, the separation of light into colours by refraction or diffraction with formation of a spectrum
the separation of radiation or a stream of particles into components of different wavelength, mass, etc
(the Dispersion) the scattering of Jews outside Israel; = Diaspora