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disperse Chemistry of or consisting of the particles in a colloid or suspension disperse [də′spərs] (computer science) A data-processing operation in which grouped input items are distributed among a larger number of groups in the output. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| All attempts to disperse the groups collected in the streets, or silence their exclamations, were in vain. And thus, with a clatter of maids and valets--for it is one appurtenance of their cousinship that however difficult they may find it to keep themselves, they MUST keep maids and valets--the cousins disperse to the four winds of heaven; and the one wintry wind that blows to-day shakes a shower from the trees near the deserted house, as if all the cousins had been changed into leaves. Is it not possible that God may hear my prayers, disperse these gloomy shadows, and grant me some beams of heaven's sunshine yet? |
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