scattering
A small quantity of something being dispersed (at random points).
Noun
- A small quantity of something being dispersed (at random points).
- There will be a scattering of showers, with heavy rain in places.
- Only a light scattering of flaws sticks out. - 1976 April 3, Don Shewey, “Pass Judgment, Go To Woolf”, in Gay Community News, page 15:
- There was something distinctly low-key, even wilfully alienating about the band’s performance. A scattering of OK Computer tracks were interspersed with more abstract latterday material – the clatter of 15 Step and...
- The total number of votes awarded to nonmajor or unlisted candidates.
- The process whereby a beam of waves or particles is dispersed by collisions or similar interactions.
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autoscattering backscattering Bragg scattering Compton scattering deep scattering layer last scattering surface light-scattering photometry Mie scattering Møller scattering neutron scattering overscattering Raman scattering Rayleigh scattering rescattering Rutherford scattering scattering function superscattering Tyndall scattering Umklapp scattering upscattering urban scattering
Verb
- present participle and gerund of scatter