Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One that disperses.
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- noun chemistry a substance that stabilizes a
dispersion ; anemulsifier - noun graph theory a particular kind of
bipartite graph
Etymologies
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Examples
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"disperser" born into a wild pack inhabiting Montana's Absaroka Mountains just north of Yellowstone National Park-she completed a solo odyssey covering 1,000 miles.
MotherJones.com By Todd Wilkinson 2009
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"disperser" born into a wild pack inhabiting Montana's Absaroka Mountains just north of Yellowstone National Park-she completed a solo odyssey covering 1,000 miles.
MotherJones.com 2009
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Job: I'm an important seed disperser in tropical regions.
Five rejected applications to Obama's MTV town hall Alexandra Petri 2010
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Ils devaient l'empêcher de se disperser et le mener vers d'autres herbages.
Archive 2010-06-01 Rene Meertens 2010
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A study by J.C. Motta-Junior and K. Martins found that the maned wolf is probably an important seed disperser.
Frugivore Wikipedia 2009
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In addition, species with a small effect on ecosystem processes can have large effect if they affect the abundance of other species with large ecosystem effect (e.g. a seed disperser or pollinator might be essential for persistence of canopy species with greater ecosystem impacts).
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Finding two 12 square cms of pork belly in the fridge, I put these in the pot and left it on lowest heat over a disperser for 10 hours!
Recipe of the Day: Soy-Poached Roast Chicken - Bitten Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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A Fourier Transform Spectrometer measures the entire spectrum at once, while a classical spectrometer uses slits and a disperser, usually a grating or a prism, and measures point by point or on a linear solid state array detector.
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Je pense qu'il est de la nature du web de nous disperser.
Response to Yvette: Loving Links in Posts Through Tabbed Browsing. — Climb to the Stars 2006
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Ne serait-ce que parce que je me concentre maintenant sur la formation à la didactique de l'histoire nécessité de moins me disperser, si cela est possible…
Microformats et Bloggy Friday d’octobre — Climb to the Stars 2006
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