disperse

verb

1. (intransitive, transitive)To scatter in different directions.

   “The Jews are dispersed among all nations.”

   “The lippes of the wiſe diſperſe knowledge: but the heart of the fooliſh, doeth not ſo.”

2. (intransitive, transitive)To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
3. (intransitive, transitive)To disseminate.
4. (intransitive, transitive)To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.
5. (intransitive, transitive)To distribute throughout.

adj

1. Scattered or spread out.

   “Australia itself is a very wide and very disperse country, where the distance problems significantly affect also the "internal" customer-supplier chains.”

   “In particular, a very crisp quantifier such as “for all,” “there exists,” “at least 50 percent” tend to have less disperse weighting vectors while fuzzier quantifiers such as many tend to have a more disperse weighting vector.”