dispersal
Seeds carried away
Dispersal is the act of scattering or spreading things over a wide area.
Seeds achieve dispersal through wind, water, or animals.
Police order the dispersal of crowds.
The word emphasizes the process or action of scattering, while dispersion tends toward the resulting state or a technical sense in physics and statistics.
Leaving homeland permanently
- immigrationRelocating abroad permanently
- exodusMass departure from somewhere
- settlementResolved dispute or colony
- expatriationLeaving one's native country
repatriation · displacement · refugees · scattering · communities · homeland · resettlement · asylum
To distribute widely
- expansionIncrease in scope
- proliferationRapid increase in quantity
- radiationEnergy propagation through space
- emanationSomething that flows out
permeation · transmission · distribution · dissipation · circulation · penetration · saturation · gradual
Plant embryos in casings
- pollenFloral reproductive grains
- sporesAsexual reproductive bodies
- windblownDisplaced by gusts
- germinationSeed's initial growth phase
propagation · colonization · pollination · fertilization · reproduction · vegetative · cloning · hybridization
Movement to new territory
- animalsMulticellular mobile organisms
- birdsEgg-laying flying vertebrates
- oceanicOf the sea
- currentsDirectional flows of movement
range · expansion · habitat · isolation · drift · gene · variation · ecology
Transferring responsibility downward
- decentralizationDistributing power from center
- transferMove between locations
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
- empowermentGaining authority or confidence
redistribution · subsidiarity · relinquishment · apportioning · disbursement · federalism · localization · authority
Planting for cultivation
- broadcastingMass signal transmission
- strewingSpreading by tossing
- sprinklingSmall scattered amount
- flingingPropelling with force
tossing · casting · disseminating · showering · peppering · spattering · dotting · winnowing
emigration
Leaving homeland permanently
- immigrationRelocating abroad permanently
- exodusMass departure from somewhere
- settlementResolved dispute or colony
expatriation · repatriation · displacement · refugees · scattering · communities · homeland · resettlement · asylum · expulsion
spread
To distribute widely
- expansionIncrease in scope
- proliferationRapid increase in quantity
- radiationEnergy propagation through space
emanation · permeation · transmission · distribution · dissipation · circulation · penetration · saturation · gradual · outward
seeds
Plant embryos in casings
germination · propagation · colonization · pollination · fertilization · reproduction · vegetative · cloning · hybridization · speciation
migration
Movement to new territory
currents · range · expansion · habitat · isolation · drift · gene · variation · ecology · nomadism
delegation
Transferring responsibility downward
- decentralizationDistributing power from center
- transferMove between locations
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
empowerment · redistribution · subsidiarity · relinquishment · apportioning · disbursement · federalism · localization · authority · governance
sowing
Planting for cultivation
- broadcastingMass signal transmission
- strewingSpreading by tossing
- sprinklingSmall scattered amount
flinging · tossing · casting · disseminating · showering · peppering · spattering · dotting · winnowing · ejecting
- movementwalk, move, go, run, jump
- ecologyhabitat, ecosystem, balance, niche, food webs
- crowd movementstampede, surge, crowd surge, rush, mob
- vanishingdisappearance, vanish, vanishing, disappear, fading
- event safetycrowd control, crowd management, crowd barriers, crowd flow, evacuation plan
- island ecologyoceanic islands, endemic species, archipelago, archipelagos, atoll
dispersalconcentration
Sustained single-minded attention
clustering · gathering · convergence · aggregation · centralization
dispersalgathering
Collection of people meeting
assembly · collection · congregation · convocation · mobilization
dispersalconsolidation
Combining into unified whole
unification · integration · cohesion · coalescence · amalgamation
- crowd dispersal
- dispersion relationFrequency as wavenumber function
- seed dispersalTransport of plant embryos
disperse, dispersed, dispersion, dispersing, disperses, dispersive, dispersant, disperser, dispersers