One who, or that which, scatters.

A scattered arrangement.

plural of scatteration

Of land mines: designed to be dispersed from a height, as from a helicopter.

(chiefly Britain) Any of a series of showers of rain, whose number, location and timing are impossible to predict

plural of scattered shower

(astronomy) A trans-Neptunian region of the Solar System that overlaps the outer edge of the Kuiper belt, but also extends far beyond it, and is populated sparsely by small Solar System bodies.

plural of scattered disc object

(astronomy) Any trans-Neptunian object whose orbit is wholly within the scattered disc.

(physics) the diffraction phenomenon exhibited by a crystal bombarded with X-rays in such a way that each plane of the crystal lattice acts as a reflector.