disperse

Etymology

From Middle French disperser, from Latin dispersus, past participle of dispergō (“to scatter abroad, disperse”), from dis- (“apart”) + spargō (“to scatter”); see sparse.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions.
   The Jews are dispersed among all nations.
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.

adj

1. Scattered or spread out.
   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