0 present participle of diffuse
1 to (cause something to) spread in many directions:
If one morphogen is diffusing at a significantly faster rate than the other, eventually one morphogen will dominate the whole system.
It illuminated a white diffusing screen behind the drop.
It may be noted that the mass of the diffusing particle does not appear in the non-inertial high friction limit.
Furthermore, specific groupings of macromolecules would be maintained in one microenvironment, rather than diffusing away from one another.
The diffusing vorticity (or turbulence) fosters the development of a turbulent boundary layer which, in turn, promotes the break-up of the incoming coherent vortex tubes.
This knowledge is freely available in existing books, reports in government and nongovernment agency offices, and academic journals dedicated to diffusing such information.
Placental diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide at varying partial pressures of oxygen.
A well-known example is in the refraction of a shock at the edge of a free jet which is diffusing into an initially still atmosphere.
