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    [Verb]  | "dis*perse" | \ di-ˈspərs \


    1: to cause to break up

    2: to cause to become spread widely

    3: to cause to evaporate or vanish


    Origin: 14th century ;

     Middle English, from Latin dispersus, past participle of dispergere to scatter, from dis- + spargere to scatter {mat|spark|};

    [Verb]  | "disperse" 


    1: to go off in different directions and cease to exist as a body or unified whole;


      * e.g., " ... the crowd dispersed once the show ended "





    2: to cause (members of a group) to move widely apart;


      * e.g., " ... the family of the missing woman dispersed searchers to all corners of the national park "





    3: to cease to exist or cause to cease to exist as a group or organization;


      * e.g., " ... the campaign staff dispersed almost immediately after the election "



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     [ "disperse" ]

    1: to leave somewhere; to get out of a place

      * e.g.,  ... James: Lets disperse out this piece.  

     [ "disperse" ]

    1: To scatter from the scene of the crime or to go seperate ways.

      * e.g.,  ... Oh Shit, there he is! DISPERSE!!!! 


     [ "disperse" ]

    2: It is also a game, where one throws something at a group of people yelling "DISPERSE" before they throw it. If they get hit or hurt in any way, they can not do anything to you because you had told them to DISPERSE!!!!

     [ "Disperse" ]

    1: The Act of A group of people Scattering when, some form of an offcial is coming. Be it a Cop, and School Adminstrator or a Store Representative. Disperses usually happen after you have lingered somewhere for more then 10 minutes

      * e.g.,  ... damn, the teachers coming, Disperse!!! 

     [ "dispersion" ]

    1: In polyamory, dispersion is any benevolent, non-jealous, relieved, or contented feeling toward the other partners of your own partner, because your partner's time spent with them gives you and your partner time apart, which introverts need to feel comfortable. It was coined to provide a more specific variety of compersion, benevolent and non-jealous feeling toward one's metamour (your own partner's partner). If compersion is being happy to share your partner with somebody else, because it makes them both happy, then dispersion is being happy that your partner is spending time with somebody else, away from you, because it lets you have space and solitude. Dispersion was coined to be used in this way by redditor /u/TooShortToBeStarbuck, on 17 March 2016, in the /r/polyamory subreddit. Quoting from the reddit post in question:

      * e.g.,  ... Brad was feeling socially overstimulated when Jennifer wanted to spend every evening at home, but now Jennifer is also dating Angelina. Brad enjoys great dispersion toward Angelina, catching up on his favourite shows on nights the two women go out together. 


     [ "dispersion" ]

    2: "Comperson has been retroactively justified as 'comperage + person + compassion,' or some combination thereof. Why not dispersion? Yes, it's an actual word, but it both works in a literal sense and in a morphological sense. 'The action or process of distributing things or people over a wide area.' Dispersing one's emotional, social, and other relationship needs across multiple partners allows any one partner to avoid shouldering too much social burden. The 'com' in 'compassion' is 'with.' The 'dis' in 'dispassion' is 'apart.' The compersion you feel, as a result of being able to get away from each other, is dispersion."

     [ "Dispersal" ]

    1: A single-leveled, wooden hut that is untidily decorated with rude pinned-up pictures of nearly-naked people, models of airplanes (theirs and ours for recognition purposes), parachutes, helmets, an iron stove, a table, chairs, decks of cards, a telephone, and sometimes boisterous dogs. Normally used in times of war to shelter pilot's for surprise attacks or emergency calls.

      * e.g.,  ... The soldiers looked to their assigned dispersal and smiled; It may not be home, but it was close enough.  

     [ "Spice dispersal" ]

    1: When somehow your food gets spicier the next day after leaving it in the refrigerator. The process by which that occurs is called “spice dispersal”

      * e.g.,  ... My food got way hotter the next day. I can’t even eat it. Must have been spice dispersal in action! 

     [ "Protein Dispersion" ]

    1: When a man ejaculates his semen.

      * e.g.,  ... My buddy is taking a 10 day cruise to the Islands where he plans to enjoy the sunny beaches, the beautiful ladies, and hopefully some "Protein Dispersion"! 

     [ "tactical dispersion" ]

    1: tactical dispersion A term for spreading or separating of personnel, materials, strategic elements, bases, and/or activities which might otherwise be concentrated in limited spaces to minimize vulnerability.

      * e.g.,  ... The use of social distancing and tactical dispersion terms by security forces during domestic protests need to be carefully phrased, so they are not misinterpreted. 

     [ "Dispersion" ]

    1: Dispersion is the Seperation of white light into its 7 different coloured lights due to the change in speed of the coloured lights when they cross the boundary between two mediums of different optical density causing each light to bend at a slightly different angle

      * e.g.,  ... Person 1: why did that prism just turn the light into rainbow? 

     [ "Dispersion" ]

    1: Dispersion is the Seperation of white light into its 7 different coloured lights due to the change in speed of each of the lights when they cross the boundary between two mediums of different optical density, causing each light to bend at a slightly different angle.

      * e.g.,  ... Person 1: why did that prism turn the light into rainbow? 

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