Meanings
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of scatter
plural scatterings
- A small quantity of something being dispersed (at random points).
There will be a scattering of showers, with heavy rain in places.
2 more examples
Only a light scattering of flaws sticks out.
1976 April 3, Don Shewey, “Pass Judgment, Go To Woolf”, in Gay Community News, page 15There was something distinctly low-key, even wilfully alienating about the band’s performance. A scattering of OK Computer tracks were interspersed with more abstract latterday material – the clatter of 15 Step and Myxamatosis.
2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in the Guardian - electionsThe total number of votes awarded to nonmajor or unlisted candidates.
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly
nouna light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Bulgarian разсейване
- разсейване (razsejvane)physical process
Chinese Mandarin 散射
- 散射 (sǎnshè)physical process
Czech rozptyl
- rozptylphysical process
Dutch verspreiding, verstrooiing
- verspreidingphysical process
- verstrooiingphysical process
Finnish sironta
- sirontaphysical process
French diffusion, éparpillement
- diffusionphysical process
- éparpillementphysical process
German Verstreuung, Verstreuen
- Verstreuungsmall quantity of something dispersed at random points
- Verstreuensmall quantity of something dispersed at random points
- Aufstreuungsmall quantity of something dispersed at random points
- Aufstreuensmall quantity of something dispersed at random points
- Ausstreuungsmall quantity of something dispersed at random points
- Ausstreuensmall quantity of something dispersed at random points
- Streuungsmall quantity of something dispersed at random points
- Streuensmall quantity of something dispersed at random points
- Streuvorgangsmall quantity of something dispersed at random points
- Streuungphysical process
- Zerstreuungphysical process
- Ausbreitungphysical process
Indonesian hamburan
- hamburanphysical process
Russian рассеивание
- рассеивание (rasseivanije)physical process
Urdu بکھراو
- بکھراو (bikhrāv)physical process
Vietnamese tán xạ
- tán xạphysical process
Cite this entry
scattering. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scattering
“scattering.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scattering. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “scattering,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scattering.
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