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Dispersion
Dispersion may refer to:

Economics and finance

Dispersion (finance), a measure for the statistical distribution of portfolio Contents
returns
Economics and finance
Price dispersion, a variation in prices across sellers of the same item
Wage dispersion, the amount of variation in wages encountered in an Science and mathematics
economy Mathematics
Dispersed knowledge, notion that any one person is unable to perceive all Physics
economic forces Other sciences
Other uses
Science and mathematics See also

Mathematics
Statistical dispersion, a quantifiable variation of measurements of differing members of a population

Index of dispersion, a normalized measure of the dispersion of a probability distribution

Physics
The dependence of wave velocity on frequency or wavelength:

Dispersion (optics), for light waves

Dispersion (water waves), for water waves
Acoustic dispersion, for sound waves
Dispersion relation, the mathematical description of dispersion in a system
Modal dispersion, spreading of signals in multimode fibers and waveguides by a distortion mechanism

Polarization mode dispersion, a form of modal dispersion

Dielectric dispersion, the dependence of the permittivity of a dielectric material on the frequency of an applied
electric field
Dispersive mass transfer, in fluid dynamics, the spreading of mass from areas of high to low concentration

Atmospheric dispersion modeling, mathematical simulation of how air pollutants disperse in the ambient
atmosphere
London dispersion force, an instantaneous induced dipole-induced dipole
Dispersed Particle Resistance, a measured parameter to characterize battery active materials

Other sciences
Biological dispersal, the distribution of animals, spores, fruits and their seeds, etc.
Dispersion (chemistry), a system in which particles are dispersed in a continuous phase of a different composition
Dispersion (geology), a process whereby sodic soil disperses when exposed to water
Dispersion (materials science), the fraction of atoms of a material exposed to the surface
Dispersion polymerization, a polymerization process
Dispersion point, a point in a topological space the removal of which leaves the space highly disconnected
Velocity dispersion, the statistical variation of velocities about the mean velocity for a group of astronomical
objects

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Other uses
Hellenistic Judaism#Hellenism, Jewish communities who lived amongst the gentiles in the first century CE
Dispersion (album), the second album by High Rise
Dispersion Technology, a scientific instrument manufacturer located in Bedford Hills, New York

See also
All pages beginning with "dispersion"
All pages beginning with "dispersed"
Dispersal (disambiguation)
Dispersive (disambiguation)
Dispersity, a measure of the heterogeneity of sizes of molecules or particles in a mixture

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