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• n  spreading widely or driving off
• n  the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume
• n  the act of dispersing or diffusing something
  the dispersion of the troops

• Al-Qaeda will necessarily have had to put new leadership and communication protocols in place, and its decentralization and dispersion may have changed the very nature of its .
• This financial emancipation has lead to a dispersion of family into separate households, allowing us to be close when we want (like at Thanksgiving), or put some distance between .
• That's the conclusion of a comprehensive labor study by the McKinsey Global Institute, which analyzed the shift in income dispersion between 1994 and 2005 and reached a troubling .

• scattering
• distribution
• dispersal
• dissemination
• diffusion

• concentration

News & Articles

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• A Biological Threat Prevention Strategy: Complicating Adversary Acquisition and Misuse of Biological Agents
  The risk of a biological attack is ever present. The relevant knowledge and material are becoming more widely available because of the global dispersion and rapid advances of technology, combined with its inherent dual-use nature. read more
  June 19, 2013 - Center for Strategic and International Studies

Quotes

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• Donald Kohn in Reuters
  The resulting dispersion of messages has bothered market participants seeking clear, unambiguous guidance about the views of the central bank,Fed Vice Chairman Donald Kohn told the annual meeting of the American Economic Association in...
• Craig Bellamy in The Age
  Perhaps he'd want to take a look in his own backyard before casting dispersion (sic) at others,Bellamy wrote about Stuart.
• Pasko Rakic in Food Consumer
  The magnitude of dispersion of labeled neurons was highly variable but increased with duration of exposure to ultrasound waves,Rakic said. "These findings suggested the desirability of further work in this area. We do not have any evidence...