<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>An act, state, or instance of dispersing or of being dispersed.</li><li><strong>Optics:</strong> The variation of the index of refraction of a transparent substance, as glass, with the wavelength of light, with the index of refraction increasing as the wavelength decreases.</li><li>The separation of white or compound light into its respective colors, as in the formation of a spectrum by a prism.</li><li><strong>Statistics:</strong> The scattering of values of a variable around the mean or median of a distribution.</li><li><strong>Military:</strong> A scattered pattern of hits of bombs dropped under identical conditions or of shots fired from the same gun with the same firing data.</li><li><strong>Physical Chemistry:</strong> A system of dispersed particles suspended in a solid, liquid, or gas.</li><li>(Initial capital letter) <strong>Diaspora.</strong></li><li>A mark or symbol that denotes something.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>