Usually means: Spread of organisms from origin.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word dispersal:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. dispersal: Merriam-Webster
  2. dispersal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dispersal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dispersal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dispersal: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dispersal, dispersal: Wordnik
  7. dispersal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dispersal: Wiktionary
  9. dispersal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dispersal: Dictionary.com
  11. dispersal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Dispersal (ecology), Dispersal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Dispersal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. dispersal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. dispersal: Rhymezone
  16. dispersal: FreeDictionary.org
  17. dispersal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. dispersal: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. Dispersal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dispersal: Infoplease Dictionary
  21. dispersal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  22. dispersal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dispersal: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dispersal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dispersal: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. dispersal: Evolution Glossary
  4. dispersal: Natural History Terms
  5. Glossary of Avian Terms For Use in Avian Conservation Biology (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dispersal: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See dispersals as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act or result of dispersing or scattering; dispersion.
noun:  A dispersal prison.

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