Word Finder - scattering

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To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.

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The crowd scattered in terror.

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To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.

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Her ashes were scattered at the top of a waterfall.

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To deflect (radiation or particles).

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To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.

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To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.

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to scatter hopes or plans

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To be dispersed upon.

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Desiccated stalks scattered the fields.

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A small quantity of something occurring at irregular intervals and dispersed at random points,

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There will be a scattering of showers, with heavy rain in places.

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(elections) The total number of votes awarded to nonmajor or unlisted candidates.

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The process whereby a beam of waves or particles is dispersed by collisions or similar interactions.

The system of "compositions" or fines, paid in many cases with the help of kinsmen, finds its natural place in the ancient, tribal period of English history and loses its vitality later on in consequence of the growth of central power and of the scattering of maegths.

As the milk is cleared out, the scattering of the drops is gradually re-established.

Although there was a scattering of other bikers, he was sure the bright yellow windbreaker would be easy to spot, unless the biker became lost in a large pack.

Plate glass is, nevertheless, considerably used for the cheaper forms of lenses, where the scattering of the light and loss of definition arising from these fine striae is not readily recognized.

The normal scattering of a nearly vertical jet is due to the rebound of the drops when they come into collision with one another.

Deidre withdrew a few feet down the balcony, struggling with the heat streaking through her blood and scattering her rationale.

The barn door was open and the goats were scattering, forcing the dog to race from one end of the lot to the other.

A scattering of cars dotted the parking lot but due to the late hour the avenue beyond was nearly devoid of traffic.

He would seem to have kept down to the coast until the headland of Ras Malan was reached, scattering before him the bands of Arabitae and Oritae who were the inhabitants of this well-provisioned tract.

The phenomenon is due to very fine particles of dust suspended in the high regions of the atmosphere that produce a scattering effect upon the component parts of white light.

On the 28th of May Rupert and d'Estrees, believing that De Ruyter was too much afraid of their superior numbers to venture to sea, sent in a squadron of light vessels and fire-ships to attack him, but he took the offensive at once, scattering the light squadron, and falling with energy on the restof the fleet, which, not being in expectation of a vigorous assault, was taken at a disadvantage.

In this event, the whiteness of the tips will be due to the scattering or irregular reflexion of the incident rays of light from the surface of the numerous gas bubbles.

Little Tushin, moving feebly and awkwardly, kept telling his orderly to "refill my pipe for that one!" and then, scattering sparks from it, ran forward shading his eyes with his small hand to look at the French.

Occasionally a little breeze puffed in but it was more of an annoyance than a help, scattering papers and patience in a hot breath of sweat and exhaust.

Another warm buzz traveled through her, scattering her thoughts at his nearness and scent.

The story of the slaying of Medusa by Athena, in which there is no certain evidence that she played a direct part, explained by Roscher as the scattering of the storm-cloud, probably arose from the fact that she is represented as wearing the Gorgon's head as a badge.

In Broom there is an explosive machanism; the pressure of the insect visitor on the keel of the corolla causes a sudden release of the stamens and the scattering of a cloud of pollen over its body.

Her body was doing funny things, like growing warm in places it should not and scattering her thoughts like confetti in a stiff breeze.

Cynthia was already at the kitchen table, amid sweet smelling scents of the morning fare of fresh cranberry scones, the ubiquitous notebook and a scattering of paper spread before her.

Convergence of the scattering amplitudes with the number of partial waves is improved by using a procedure which is related to the Pade approximation.

Ironically he was scattering the ashes of the father of another climber.

Glories can be predicted by Mie scattering calculations as used in IRIS.

It will also include the analysis of dynamic light scattering, isothermal titration calorimetry, and concepts for global analysis.

Application note on using light scattering for protein characterization.

There is a scattering of people around and one of them asks me if I've seen any dotterel.

Scattering of a plane electromagnetic wave by a perfectly conducting aircraft.

Light scattering experiments have also shown that it has a tendency to aggregate.

Theories of halo nucleus scattering often use an approximation in which the halo nucleus scattering often use an approximation in which the halo is appeared frozen during the collision.

Atmospheric perspective particles and vapor in the atmosphere cause scattering of light that makes very distant surface appear hazy.

In the most highly ionized regions of our models, the dominant heating process is electron recoil following Compton scattering.

The light scattering irradiance for spheres is calculated using the equation, 1.0 where is the scattering amplitude function given by [2] .

Neutron diffraction techniques are employed to investigate both atomic and magnetic structures, while longer range fluctuations are studied using small angle neutron diffraction techniques are employed to investigate both atomic and magnetic structures, while longer range fluctuations are studied using small angle neutron scattering.

Theories of halo nucleus scattering often use an approximation in which the halo is appeared frozen during the collision.

Conventional systems rely on measuring Raman scattering by optical phonons.

The pictures below show the cosine squared distribution of the ejected photoelectron in the presence of multiple scattering.

If a scattering matrix is known, the response of the target to any combination of incident and received polarizations can be computed.

Rattle, rattle rattle, scattering scarlet poppy seeds.

However, in a thick enough specimen, inelastic scattering will also take place.

Thus the observed diffuse scattering can be assumed to be almost entirely from phonon scattering.

In these events, a single high-energy quark is ejected from the target proton, indicative of deep-inelastic scattering.

Properties of hadronic final states in diffractive deep inelastic ep scattering at HERA.

The scattering between the shells is computed by matrix operations on the shell scattering matrices.

Further examples for the use of X-ray or neutron scattering can be found in our list of publications.

The structure of the dispersion was examined by small-angle synchrotron X-ray scattering on beamline 8.2.

X-ray scattering techniques will let you look at how this network forms.

Two lamellar crystal phases were characterized on the basis of their particular wide-angle X-ray scattering patterns.

In many areas, conventional helium scattering has been limited by the energy resolution with which such measurements can be made.

I put both rods out with Maple 8 boilies, fished with small stringers and a scattering of bait around the spots.

Estimating suspended sediment concentrations from ocean color measurements in moderately turbid waters; the impact of variable particle scattering properties.

Typically, the molecular weight is measured using static light scattering.