Usually means: Movement of particles from high.
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  1. diffusion: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. diffusion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. diffusion: Collins English Dictionary
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  5. Diffusion, diffusion: Wordnik
  6. diffusion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. diffusion: Wiktionary
  8. diffusion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. diffusion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  12. diffusion: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Diffusion (acoustics), Diffusion (anthropology), Diffusion (business), Diffusion (cryptography), Diffusion (disambiguation), Diffusion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  15. diffusion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  17. Diffusion, diffusion (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. diffusion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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  23. diffusion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

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  3. Diffusion: Management Dictionary
  4. Diffusion (disambiguation), Diffusion (mathematics), diffusion: Legal dictionary
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  1. Diffusion: Cybernetics and Systems
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  6. Diffusion (disambiguation), Diffusion (mathematics), diffusion: Medical dictionary
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  3. Diffusion: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  4. Diffusion: Extragalactic Astronomy
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  6. diffusion: Evolution Glossary
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  1. Diffusion: Urban Dictionary

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  1. diffusion: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. diffusion: Electronics
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(Note: See diffusional as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The act of diffusing or dispersing something, or the property of being diffused or dispersed; dispersion.
noun:  (physics) The scattering of light by reflection from a rough surface, or by passage through a translucent medium.
noun:  (physics) The intermingling of the molecules of a fluid due to random thermal agitation.
noun:  The spread of cultural or linguistic practices, or social institutions, in one or more communities.
noun:  (marketing) The gradual spread and adoption of goods or services.
noun:  (physics, weather) Exchange of airborne media between regions in space in an apparently random motion of a small scale.
noun:  The movement of water vapor from regions of high concentration (high water vapor pressure) toward regions of lower concentration.

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