Usually means: Spreads or scatters in different directions.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. disperses: Merriam-Webster
  2. disperses: Collins English Dictionary
  3. disperses: Vocabulary.com
  4. disperses: Wordnik
  5. disperses: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. disperses: Wiktionary
  7. disperses: Dictionary.com
  8. disperses: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. disperses: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. disperses: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. disperses: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. disperses: Medical dictionary

(Note: See disperse as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (disperse)

verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To disseminate.
verb:  (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To distribute throughout.
adjective:  Scattered or spread out.
▸ Also see disperse


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