Usually means: Interaction of particles causing dispersion.
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  1. scattering: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. scattering: Merriam-Webster
  3. scattering: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. scattering: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. scattering: Collins English Dictionary
  6. scattering: Vocabulary.com
  7. Scattering, scattering: Wordnik
  8. scattering: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. scattering: Wiktionary
  10. scattering: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. scattering: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. scattering: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. scattering: Dictionary.com
  14. scattering: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Scattering (optics), Scattering, The Scattering (song), The Scattering: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Scattering: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. scattering: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. scattering: Rhymezone
  19. Scattering: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. scattering: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. scattering: FreeDictionary.org
  22. scattering: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. scattering: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. scattering: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Scattering: CCI Computer
  2. scattering: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. scattering: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  4. scattering: Medical dictionary

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  1. scattering: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Scattering: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. Scattering: Extragalactic Astronomy
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  1. scattering: Urban Dictionary

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  1. scattering: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
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  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  5. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  6. Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon (No longer online)

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noun:  A small quantity of something being dispersed (at random points).
noun:  (elections) The total number of votes awarded to nonmajor or unlisted candidates.
noun:  (physics) The process whereby a beam of waves or particles is dispersed by collisions or similar interactions.

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