scattering

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskætəɹɪŋ/
• Hyphenation: scat‧ter‧ing

Verb

scattering

1. present participle and gerund of scatter

Noun

scattering (plural scatterings)

1. A small quantity of something beeing dispersed (at random points).

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

   • 1976 April 3, Don Shewey, “Pass Judgment, Go To Woolf”, in Gay Community News, page 15:

     Only a light scattering of flaws sticks out.

   • 2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in the Guardian‎^[1]:

     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 Myxamatosis.

2. (elections) The total number of votes awarded to nonmajor or unlisted candidates.
3. (physics) The process whereby a beam of waves or particles is dispersed by collisions or similar interactions.

Hypernyms

• light-scattering

Derived terms

• Bragg scattering
• Compton scattering
• deep scattering layer
• light-scattering photometry
• Mie scattering
• Møller scattering
• neutron scattering
• Raman scattering
• Rayleigh scattering
• scattering function
• Tyndall scattering
• Umklapp scattering
• urban scattering

 

Translations

small quantity of something dispersed at random points

• German: Verstreuung f, Verstreuen n, Aufstreuung f, Aufstreuen n, Ausstreuung f, Ausstreuen n, Streuung (de) f, Streuen (de) n, Streuvorgang m

physical process

• Bulgarian: разсейване (bg) n (razsejvane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 散射 (zh) (sǎnshè)

• Czech: rozptyl m
• Dutch: verspreiding (nl),verstrooiing (nl)
• Finnish: sironta (fi)
• French: diffusion (fr) f, éparpillement (fr) m
• Galician: dispersión (gl) f
• German: Streuung (de) f, Zerstreuung (de) f, Ausbreitung (de) f, Streuvorgang m, Streuprozess m
• Russian: рассеивание (ru) n (rasseivanije)
• Urdu: بکھراو f (bikhrāv)