Usually means: Dispersed randomly over a wide area.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. scattered: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. scattered: Collins English Dictionary
  3. scattered: Vocabulary.com
  4. Scattered, scattered: Wordnik
  5. scattered: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. scattered: Wiktionary
  7. scattered: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. scattered: Dictionary.com
  9. scattered: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Scattered (Battlestar Galactica), Scattered (The Handsome Family album), Scattered (The Kinks song), Scattered (album), Scattered (disambiguation), Scattered (rave), Scattered: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Scattered: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. scattered: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. scattered: Rhymezone
  14. Scattered: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. scattered: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. scattered: Free Dictionary
  17. scattered: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. scattered: Dictionary/thesaurus
  19. scattered: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Scattered: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  3. scattered: Legal dictionary
  4. Scattered: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scattered: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. scattered: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scattered: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. scattered: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  2. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. scattered: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. scattered: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See scatter as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Dispersed, spread apart into disunited units.
adjective:  Seemingly randomly distributed.
adjective:  (meteorology, of clouds) Covering three eighths to four eighths of the sky.
adjective:  (meteorology, of precipitation) Affecting 30 percent to 50 percent of a forecast zone.

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