-sperse, -spersed, -spersing, -spersion; spars-; -spargic +

(Latin: to scatter, to strew, to sprinkle)


aquaspargic
Spread by water.
asperse
1. To spread false or damaging charges or insinuations against someone.
2. To sprinkle, especially with holy water.
3. To attack with false, malicious, and damaging charges or insinuations; to slander.
4. To sprinkle; to bespatter.
5. Etymology: From Middle English, "to besprinkle", from Latin aspergere, aspers-; from ad- plus spargere, "to strew".
aspersion
1. A statement that attacks someone's character or reputation: "She cast aspersions on his integrity."
2. The making of slanderous remarks; the making of defamatory remarks.
3. A damaging or derogatory remark or criticism; slander.
4. The act of slandering; vilification; defamation; calumniation; derogation: "Such vehement aspersions cannot be ignored."
5. The act of sprinkling, as in baptism.
6. Archaic: A shower or spray.
disperse
1. To drive or send off in various directions; to scatter: "The police tried to disperse the crowd."
2. To spread widely; to disseminate: "The role of the university is to disperse knowledge."
3. To dispel; to cause to vanish: "The wind dispersed the fog."
4. Physical Chemistry: To cause (particles) to separate uniformly throughout a solid, liquid, or gas.
5. To distribute (particles) evenly throughout a medium.
6. To dissipate, to cause the disappearance of, to scatter, to dilute.
dispersion
1. The scattering or distribution of something within an area or space.
2. A condition of being dispersed; the fact or state of being spread, scattered, or distributed.
3. A chemistry medium with dispersed particles; a chemical system consisting of a gas, liquid, or colloid containing dispersed particles.
4. In the military: A scattered pattern of hits of bombs dropped under identical conditions or of shots fired from the same gun with the same firing data.
insperse
To sprinkle; to scatter.
inspersion
1. Sprinkling with a fluid or a powder.
2. The act of sprinkling with a fluid or a powder.
interspersal
The act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; such as, the interspersion of illustrations in a text.
intersperse, interspersing,
1. To distribute among other things at intervals: "They interspersed red and blue tiles on the walls." "One should always try to intersperse praise with constructive criticism."
2. To supply or diversify with things distributed at intervals: "There were several interspersed lamp fixtures on the large ceiling." "The newspaper section was interspersed with several advertisements."
3. To diversify with something placed or scattered at intervals.
interspersion
The act of combining one thing at intervals among other things.
lactospargic
Spread by milk.
monodisperse
Characterized by particles of uniform size in a dispersed phase.
polydisperse
Relating to, characterized by, or characterized as particles of varied sizes in the dispersed phase of a disperse system.
respersion
The act of sprinkling or scattering.
retispersion
Migration of the Golgi apparatus from its normal position to the periphery of the cell.

Intracellular stack of membrane bounded vesicles (closed membrane shell) in which glycosylation (process of adding sugar units) and packaging of secreted proteins takes place.


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