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spread-out

adj. especially spread in a fan shape; "the peacock's fanned tail"; "the spread-out cards" [syn: fanned, spread-out(a)]

Usage examples of "spread-out".

We believe that memory is stored in a spread-out, neuronally distributed way in the brain, and that memo­ries are stored physically in the same areas that were initially involved in processing and analyzing the event that is to be remembered.

With racing hearts and pent breath they lay on their stomachs on the glaze and watched in the starlight as a spread-out line of searching Rucks swept toward them.