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dispersive

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for dispersive.

Editorial note

Such dispersive characteristics support modulation instability, which amplifies input noise and forms Stokes and anti-Stokes sidebands around the pump wavelength.

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Quick take

That causes dispersion

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

That causes dispersion

adjective

That becomes dispersed

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for dispersive.

Example sentences

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Such dispersive characteristics support modulation instability, which amplifies input noise and forms Stokes and anti-Stokes sidebands around the pump wavelength.

2

Refraction occurs because of a change in velocity between mediums, and the refractive index is wavelength-dependant (dispersive) in many mediums.

3

Sound propagation in water is dispersive (higher frequencies travel faster, but lower frequencies travel farther).

4

Use a CD disk - really - it disperses light similarly to a dispersive prism.

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This media is highly dispersive and described by changes in constituent properties (permittivity, permeability) usually coinciding with frequency/wave propagation constant changes.

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Right now my head is full of dispersive PDEs so I will not think of using parabolic regularization.

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I know I don't have a slick pitch site but it's intentionally dispersive like Unix is supposed to be.

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Entropy is a dispersive force — it favors distribution and disorder.

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Having lots of different states (different momenta) at similar energy usually means the interactions are more important than in materials where the kinetic energy is larger and more dispersive (depends more strongly on momentum).

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I recall seeing spectral (color) filters made from dispersive materials sandwiched between rotating polarizers to filter (scan) the light entering camera (expensive, compact).

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Tsunami forecasting models must now be revised to incorporate dispersive effects and quantify this energy to more accurately predict the wave's timing and force as it approaches the coast.

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This looks somewhat like the concept behind a fresnel zone plate [1] - in general these are highly dispersive (only work at one frequency) so it looks like they have done something to address this.

Quote examples

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See the "Nine Situations" [0] We used to occupy type-5 (open ground) which was also mostly type-2 (dispersive).

2

> According to the report, more than "five particles characteristic of GSR" were found when using a "scanning electron microscopy/energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (SEM/EDS) and analyzed for elemental composition and particle morphology" >...

Proper noun examples

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Dispersive optical bistability, realised in SC quantum circuits, is the way to go.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use dispersive in a sentence?

Such dispersive characteristics support modulation instability, which amplifies input noise and forms Stokes and anti-Stokes sidebands around the pump wavelength.

What does dispersive mean?

That causes dispersion

What part of speech is dispersive?

dispersive is commonly used as adjective.