disperser

English

Etymology

From disperse +‎ -er.

Noun

disperser (plural dispersers)

1. (chemistry) A substance that stabilizes a dispersion; an emulsifier.
2. (graph theory) A particular kind of bipartite graph.
3. (ecology) An organism that disperses something, such as seeds, in the environment.
   • 1996, Charles R. Brown, Mary Bomberger Brown, Coloniality in the Cliff Swallow:

     Nesting data from dispersers and nondispersers came from the same set of colonies and were thus directly comparable.

   • 2022 September 19, Schultheiss et al., “The abundance, biomass, and distribution of ants on Earth”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, page 1, column 1:

     Ants are integral components of terrestrial ecosystems, owing to their manifold interactions with other organisms. They serve as seed dispersers for plants (myrmecochory), mutualists with sap-sucking insects (trophobionts), and hosts for a wide range of associate organisms (myrmecophiles) and act as both predator and prey.

Synonyms

• (chemistry): dispersant

Derived terms

• nondisperser

 

See also

• disperser on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• presiders, respiders

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis.pɛʁ.se/

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Verb

disperser

1. to scatter; to disperse

Conjugation

Conjugation of disperser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	disperser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	dispersant /dis.pɛʁ.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		dispersé /dis.pɛʁ.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	disperse /dis.pɛʁs/	disperses /dis.pɛʁs/	disperse /dis.pɛʁs/	dispersons /dis.pɛʁ.sɔ̃/	dispersez /dis.pɛʁ.se/	dispersent /dis.pɛʁs/
	imperfect	dispersais /dis.pɛʁ.sɛ/	dispersais /dis.pɛʁ.sɛ/	dispersait /dis.pɛʁ.sɛ/	dispersions /dis.pɛʁ.sjɔ̃/	dispersiez /dis.pɛʁ.sje/	dispersaient /dis.pɛʁ.sɛ/
	past historic2	dispersai /dis.pɛʁ.se/	dispersas /dis.pɛʁ.sa/	dispersa /dis.pɛʁ.sa/	dispersâmes /dis.pɛʁ.sam/	dispersâtes /dis.pɛʁ.sat/	dispersèrent /dis.pɛʁ.sɛʁ/
	future	disperserai /dis.pɛʁ.sə.ʁe/	disperseras /dis.pɛʁ.sə.ʁa/	dispersera /dis.pɛʁ.sə.ʁa/	disperserons /dis.pɛʁ.sə.ʁɔ̃/	disperserez /dis.pɛʁ.sə.ʁe/	disperseront /dis.pɛʁ.sə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	disperserais /dis.pɛʁ.sə.ʁɛ/	disperserais /dis.pɛʁ.sə.ʁɛ/	disperserait /dis.pɛʁ.sə.ʁɛ/	disperserions /dis.pɛʁ.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	disperseriez /dis.pɛʁ.sə.ʁje/	disperseraient /dis.pɛʁ.sə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	disperse /dis.pɛʁs/	disperses /dis.pɛʁs/	disperse /dis.pɛʁs/	dispersions /dis.pɛʁ.sjɔ̃/	dispersiez /dis.pɛʁ.sje/	dispersent /dis.pɛʁs/
	imperfect2	dispersasse /dis.pɛʁ.sas/	dispersasses /dis.pɛʁ.sas/	dispersât /dis.pɛʁ.sa/	dispersassions /dis.pɛʁ.sa.sjɔ̃/	dispersassiez /dis.pɛʁ.sa.sje/	dispersassent /dis.pɛʁ.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	disperse /dis.pɛʁs/	—	dispersons /dis.pɛʁ.sɔ̃/	dispersez /dis.pɛʁ.se/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• en ordre dispersé

Further reading

• “disperser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

German

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Adjective

disperser

1. comparative degree of dispers

Adjective

disperser

1. inflection of dispers:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural