- (n.) The act or process of scattering or dispersing or the state of being scattered or separated; as, the Jews in their dispersion retained their rites and ceremonies; a great dispersion of the human family took place at the building of Babel.
- (n.) The separation of light into its different colored rays, arising from their different refrangibilities.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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