A biogeographical approach based on the idea of organisms being dispersed from their origin to other places.

The act or result of dispersing or scattering; dispersion. / A dispersal prison.

(transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions. / (transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate. / (transitive, intransitive) To disseminate.

Scattered or spread out.

The state of being dispersed; dispersedness. / A process of dispersing. / The degree of scatter of data. / (optics) The separation of visible light by refraction or diffraction.

simple past tense and past participle of disperse

present participle of disperse

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disperse

plural of dispersion

That becomes dispersed / That causes dispersion