0 the action of spreading across or moving away over a large area, or of making people or things do this: --
Rather than letting students become concentrated in ghettos, there needs to be a policy of dispersal across the city.
In addition to wind dispersal, the seeds can also be dispersed by water.
The sale will mark the dispersal of one of the finest collections of antique furnishing ever assembled.
There is a conspiracy theory about the secret dispersal of chemicals in jet plane vapour trails.
They have to wait for atmospheric conditions to allow for dispersal of the smoke.