What is "dispersal"

Usage examples of "dispersal".

I am also Prefect Extraordinary to the Aranea Spiders of the Dispersal.

Linguists suggest that the fragmentation of the Austronesian languages of Melanesia implies a dispersal five to six thousand years ago.

Vive took it in: a botfly nearby, spewing canned warnings about orderly dispersal.

Both reports called attention to the dispersal of effort on too many priorities, the declining attention to the craft of strategic analysis, and security rules that prevented adequate sharing of information.

Something about their dispersal from the viruslike module made him think of a planetarium star-field projector.

And why should a man of my status kowtow to a yellowbelly bean like him, even under threat of instant molecular dispersal?

A short engagement ensued, in which the casualties amounted to thirty killed and wounded, but which ended in the defeat and dispersal of the Boers, whose force was certainly very much weaker than the British.

It had been hoped that the dispersal of the main Boer army, the capture of its guns and the expulsion of many both of the burghers and of the foreign mercenaries, would have marked the end of the war.

After the dispersal of the main army at Komatipoort there remained a considerable number of men in arms, some of them irreconcilable burghers, some of them foreign adventurers, and some of them Cape rebels, to whom British arms were less terrible than British law.

Chapter XI Geographical Distribution Present distribution cannot be accounted for by differences in physical conditions -- Importance of barriers -- Affinity of the productions of the same continent -- Centres of creation -- Means of dispersal, by changes of climate and of the level of the land, and by occasional means -- dispersal during the Glacial period co-extensive with the world.

With an individual healer, one witnesses healings of a widely divergent character, the restoring of an unbalanced mind, the dispersal of a growth and the correction of sight or hearing.

I will only say that as far as regards the occurrence of identical species at points so enormously remote as Kerguelen Land, New Zealand, and Fuegia, I believe that towards the close of the Glacial period, icebergs, as suggested by Lyell, have been largely concerned in their dispersal.

With the establishment of the Guild a century ago, the landholders all agreed to a delegation of authority, a dispersal of responsibilities.

The result was the breakup of the collection, the dispersal of all those works of art to museums around the world, and the sale of the villa to the American university, which established some form of summer camp in the building that had once echoed to the voices of the leading literary and artistic figures of Europe.

The sepals, which enclose the ovarium whilst it is young, present an additional adaptation by expanding widely when the seeds are ripe, so as not to interfere with their dispersal.