physics The process in which there is movement of a substance from an area of high concentration of that substance to an area of lower concentration.

Roget 186: presence; occupancy, occupation; attendance; whereness^†.    permeation, pervasion; diffusion etc. (dispersion) 73.    ubiety^†, ubiquity, ubiquitariness^†; omnipresence.    bystander etc. (spectator) 444.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 322: rarity, tenuity; absence of solidity etc. 321; subtility^†; subtilty^†, subtlety; sponginess, compressibility.    rarefaction, expansion, dilatation, inflation, subtilization^†.    vaporization, evaporation, diffusion, gassification^†.    ether etc. (gas) 334.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: diffusie
Pools: dyfuzja

The spread of social institutions (and myths and skills) from one society to another.

The property of being diffused or dispersed.

synoniem: dissemination.

The act of dispersing or diffusing something:
— The diffusion of knowledge.

synoniemen: dispersal, dispersion, dissemination.

Roget 73: dispersion; disjunction etc. 44; divergence etc. 291; aspersion; scattering etc. v.; dissemination, diffusion, dissipation, distribution; apportionment etc. 786; spread, respersion^†, circumfusion^†, interspersion, spargefaction^†; affusion^†.    waifs and estrays^†, flotsam and jetsam, disjecta membra [Lat.], [Horace]; waveson^†.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: spreiding