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Dispersion vs Circulation - What's the difference?

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Dispersion is a related term of circulation.


As nouns the difference between dispersion and circulation

is that dispersion is dispersion, dispersal while circulation is (senseid)the act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.

dispersion

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • (medicine) The removal of inflammation.

    • Related terms

    * dispersivity

    References

    * Chambers's Etymological Dictionary , 1896, p. 131

    circulation

    English

    Noun

  • (senseid)The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.
  • The act of passing from place to place or person to person; free diffusion; transmission.
  • Currency; circulating coin; notes, bills, etc., current for coin.
  • The extent to which anything circulates or is circulated; the measure of diffusion; as, the circulation of a newspaper.
  • (senseid)The movement of the blood in the blood-vascular system, by which it is brought into close relations with almost every living elementary constituent. Also the movement of the sap in the vessels and tissues of plants.