dispersal

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The act or result of dispersing or scattering; dispersion.

   For a time, Okeh picked up the disk for national dispersal.

2. 2
   noun

   A dispersal prison.

   Problems of control in dispersals and in other prisons necessarily instigated a multiplicity of working theories to explain the difficulties […]

3. 3
   noun

   the act of dispersing or diffusing something

Etymology

From disperse + -al.