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- English Word Diffract Definition To break or separate into parts; to deflect, or decompose by deflection, a/ rays of light.
- English Word Diffracted Definition of Diffract
- English Word Diffracting Definition of Diffract
- English Word Diffraction Definition The deflection and decomposition of light in passing by the edges of opaque bodies or through narrow slits, causing the appearance of parallel bands or fringes of prismatic colors, as by the action of a grating of fine lines or bars.
- English Word Diffractive Definition That produces diffraction.
- English Word Diffranchise Definition Alt. of Diffranchisement
- English Word Diffranchisement Definition See Disfranchise, Disfranchisement.
- English Word Diffusate Definition Material which, in the process of catalysis, has diffused or passed through the separating membrane.
- English Word Diffuse Definition To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse information.
- English Word Diffuse Definition To pass by spreading every way, to diffuse itself.
- English Word Diffuse Definition Poured out; widely spread; not restrained; copious; full; esp., of style, opposed to concise or terse; verbose; prolix; as, a diffuse style; a diffuse writer.
- English Word Diffused Definition of Diffuse
- English Word Diffused Definition Spread abroad; dispersed; loose; flowing; diffuse.
- English Word Diffusely Definition In a diffuse manner.
- English Word Diffuseness Definition The quality of being diffuse; especially, in writing, the use of a great or excessive number of word to express the meaning; copiousness; verbosity; prolixity.
- English Word Diffuser Definition One who, or that which, diffuses.
- English Word Diffusibility Definition The quality of being diffusible; capability of being poured or spread out.
- English Word Diffusible Definition Capable of flowing or spreading in all directions; that may be diffused.
- English Word Diffusible Definition Capable of passing through animal membranes by osmosis.
- English Word Diffusibleness Definition Diffusibility.
- English Word Diffusing Definition of Diffuse
- English Word Diffusion Definition The act of diffusing, or the state of being diffused; a spreading; extension; dissemination; circulation; dispersion.
- English Word Diffusion Definition The act of passing by osmosis through animal membranes, as in the distribution of poisons, gases, etc., through the body. Unlike absorption, diffusion may go on after death, that is, after the blood ceases to circulate.
- English Word Diffusive Definition Having the quality of diffusing; capable of spreading every way by flowing; spreading widely; widely reaching; copious; diffuse.
- English Word Diffusively Definition In a diffusive manner.
- English Word Diffusiveness Definition The quality or state of being diffusive or diffuse; extensiveness; expansion; dispersion. Especially of style: Diffuseness; want of conciseness; prolixity.
- English Word Diffusivity Definition Tendency to become diffused; tendency, as of heat, to become equalized by spreading through a conducting medium.
- English Word Dig Definition To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade.
- English Word Dig Definition To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.
- English Word Dig Definition To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.