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Dispersion vs Dispersity - What's the difference?

dispersion | dispersity |

As nouns the difference between dispersion and dispersity

is that dispersion is dispersion, dispersal while dispersity is (uncountable) the state of being dispersed, of being a dispersion.

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

    dispersity

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The state of being dispersed, of being a dispersion
  • (countable) The extent to which something is dispersed