scatter
IPA: skˈætɝ
noun
- The act of scattering or dispersing.
- A collection of dispersed objects.
verb
- (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).
- (intransitive) To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.
- (transitive) To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.
- (transitive) To be dispersed upon.
- (transitive, baseball) Of a pitcher: to keep down the number of hits or walks.
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Examples of "scatter" in Sentences
- Once a scatter is attached, a right side of a shade should demeanour similar to this.
- Buying spots when the season is under way, rather than ahead of time in the upfront market, is called the scatter market.
- "The (team's) paper falls short of establishing that this thin scatter of rubbish was left by chimpanzees," White wrote in an e-mail.
- Turn a ends of a scatter up as good as in to a join stipend creation certain a complete scatter is inside of a accomplished width of a shade, or 5/8 from a edge.
- "Scatter," said he in English -- "scatter without adieus, and all to the fore by morning search back to the Brig of Urchy, comrades there till the middle of the day, then the devil take the hindmost."
- "With our approach we hit fully linear parallelism because we take all the source systems and we essentially do what we call scatter the data," explained Ben Wether, director of product management at Greenplum.
- The analyst, who called the growth in P2P “explosive,” observed that the RIAA strategy was like chasing cockroaches that scatter from the light, stressing that for each P2P network targeted, there are ample more to step up and bring on more users.
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