Dispersion 8585 220937482 2008-06-22T08:46:17Z Crowsnest 6054452 TOC to the right {{wiktionarypar|dispersion}} '''Dispersion''' can refer to: {{TOCright}} ===Biology=== *[[Biological dispersal]], the distribution of spores, fruits and their seeds, etc. ===Physics=== *A phenomenon that causes the separation of a wave into components of varying frequency: **[[Dispersion relation]] **[[Dispersion (optics)]] (see also [[Abbe number]]) **[[Dispersion (water waves)]] **[[Dielectric dispersion]] *[[Dispersive mass transfer]], in fluid dynamics, the spreading of mass from areas of high to low concentration **[[Atmospheric pollution dispersion]] *[[Modal dispersion]], spreading signals in multimode fibers and waveguides by a distortion mechanism **[[Polarization mode dispersion]] (PMD), different polarizations of light in a waveguide may travel at different speeds due to random imperfections and asymmetries of the waveguide ===Geology=== *[[Dispersion (geology)]], a process whereby sodic soil disperses when exposed to water ===Materials science=== *[[Dispersion (materials science)]], the fraction of atoms of a material exposed to the surface ===Statistics=== *[[Statistical dispersion]], quantifiable variation of measurements of differing members of a population **[[Coefficient of dispersion]], a measure to quantify whether a set of observed occurrences are relatively clustered or dispersed ===Economics and finance=== *[[Dispersion (finance)]], a measure for the statistical distribution of portfolio returns *[[Price dispersion]], variation in prices across sellers of the same item *[[Wage dispersion]] refers to the amount of variation in wages encountered in an economy {{disambig}} [[bg:Дисперсия]] [[ca:Dispersió]] [[de:Dispersion]] [[es:Dispersión]] [[eo:Varianco (apartigilo)]] [[fr:Dispersion (homonymie)]] [[lt:Dispersija (reikšmės)]] [[nl:Dispersie]] [[pl:Dyspersja]] [[ru:Дисперсия]] [[sk:Disperzia]] [[sr:Дисперзија]] [[fi:Hajonta]] [[sv:Spridning (olika betydelser)]] [[uk:Дисперсія]]