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DISPERSED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Distributed or spread over a considerable extent
Example:
eleven million Jews are spread throughout Europe
Synonyms:
dispersed; spread
Classified under:
Similar:
distributed (spread out or scattered about or divided up)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb disperse
Context examples:
The sound of the dressing-bell dispersed the party.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
All were attracted at first by the plants or the pheasants, and all dispersed about in happy independence.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
A liquid preparation, suitable for injection, which consists of solid particles dispersed throughout a liquid phase in which the particles are not soluble.
(Injectable Sonicated Suspension Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
A semi-solid composed of at least two immiscible liquids, one of which is dispersed as droplets within the other liquid, and stabilized with one or more emulsifying agents.
(Emulsion Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)
A technique for determining the zeta potential of a sample through the detection of the motion of dispersed particles relative to a fluid under the influence of an oscillating electric field.
(Electrophoretic Light Scattering, NCI Thesaurus)
Men who before this change seemed to have been hid in caves dispersed themselves and were employed in various arts of cultivation.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
It can also consist of an oil phase dispersed throughout an aqueous phase, or vice-versa.
(Injectable Suspension Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
A solid composed of an impermeable occlusive backing, a formulation matrix in which the active and/or inert ingredient(s) are dissolved or dispersed and an adhesive layer.
(Medicated Adhesive Patch Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)
It is about 12 to 20 micrometer in diameter, has a round to oval nucleus with fine, lightly dispersed chromatin and one to four nucleoli.
(Monoblast, NCI Thesaurus)
Tandem arrays of moderately repetitive (5-50 repeats) short (10-60 bases) DNA sequences found dispersed throughout the genome and clustered near telomeres.
(Minisatellite Repeat, NCI Thesaurus)
