Dispersal

Dispersal may refer to:

• Biological dispersal, the movement of organisms away from aggregations of individuals such as movement from their birth site
  • Dispersal vector, forces that carry seeds for plants
  • Oceanic dispersal, the movement of terrestrial organisms from one land mass to another by sea-crossing
  • Seed dispersal, the movement or transport of seeds away from the parent plant
• Dispersal draft, a system in professional sports for reassigning players whose former team is defunct
• Dispersal of ownership, breaking up large media companies and media conglomerates to diversify ownership of property rights
• Dispersal (military), strategic spreading-out of military personnel and equipment to reduce collateral damage
• Dispersal prison, one of five secure prisons in the United Kingdom that houses Category A prisoners
• Dispersal index, for volcanic eruptions
• The dispersal area of an aerodrome, where aeroplanes are parked away from the runway.

See also

• Dispersion (disambiguation)
• Dispersive (disambiguation)
• Dispersity, a measure of the heterogeneity of sizes of molecules or particles in a mixture