Meanings
- uncountableExcessive scattering; scattering too far or too much.
It is indeed a difficult mean to hit between overcrowding and overscattering.
1888 August, “Confessions of a Gardener”, in MacMillan's Magazine, volume 58, number 346, page 2891 more example
[…] a pointless anxiety about "overscattering" takes hold, propelling the story to its somewhat ironic finale in which they are desperately scattered upon the face of the earth.
2008, Shlomo Biderman, Crossing Horizons, page 115 - uncountablebiologyThe breaking apart and spreading of biological entities during the preparation of sample slides for the microscope.
Pre-fixation of embryos in the first fixative solution could decrease the dissociation or overscattering of blastomeres.
1975, Nihon Gakushiin, Proceedings of the Japan Academy, page 541 more example
This technique was modified to avoid artifactual loss of chromosomes by overscattering, and the ooplasmic matrix was retained […]
1991, E. S. E. Hafez, Assisted Human Reproductive Technology, page 31
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