plural of scattering

The act of scattering or dispersing. / A collection of dispersed objects.

(ergative) To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse. / (transitive) To distribute loosely as by sprinkling. / (transitive, physics) To deflect (radiation or particles).

Dispersed, spread apart into disunited units. / Seemingly randomly distributed. / (meteorology, of clouds) Covering three eighths to four eighths of the sky.

simple past tense and past participle of scatter

present participle and gerund of scatter

A small quantity of something occurring at irregular intervals and dispersed at random points. / (elections) The total number of votes awarded to nonmajor or unlisted candidates.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scatter

plural of scatter

Of land mines: designed to be dispersed from a height, as from a helicopter.