dispersal

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dispersal

Sounds like disbursal · Rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)səl

noun dispersals

  1. countable, uncountable The act or result of dispersing or scattering; dispersion. For a time, Okeh picked up the disk for national dispersal.
  2. countable, uncountable A dispersal prison. Problems of control in dispersals and in other prisons necessarily instigated a multiplicity of working theories to explain the difficulties […]

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Closest in meaning: dispersion, dissemination, dispersive, scattered, scatter, disperse, scattering, dissipation, diffusion, sparse, deflation, fragmentation, fragmented, propagation, spread, breakup

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noun the act or result of dispersing or scattering

Русскийрассеивание rasseivanije, рассеяние rassejanije, рассредоточение rassredotočenije

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@misc{dispersal_2026,
  title = {dispersal},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dispersal},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}