Decentralize vs Disperse - What's the difference?
decentralize | disperse |
To cause something to change from being concentrated at one point to being distributed across a number of points.
To reduce the authority of a governing body by distributing that authority among several bodies.
(intransitive) To scatter in different directions
* Bible, Proverbs xv. 7
* Cowper
(intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate
(intransitive) To disseminate
(physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light etc. according to wavelength; to refract
(intransitive) To distribute throughout
As verbs the difference between decentralize and disperse
is that decentralize is to cause something to change from being concentrated at one point to being distributed across a number of points while disperse is .decentralize
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Alternative forms
* decentralise (UK)Verb
(decentraliz)disperse
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Verb
- The Jews are dispersed among all nations.
- The lips of the wise disperse knowledge.
- Two lions, in the still, dark night, / A herd of beeves disperse .