diffuse
The government needs to promote wider diffusion of e-commerce in the economy.
There was a rapid diffusion of the crisis from one country to all countries in the region.
He never shared their belief in progress through the advancement of science or diffusion of knowledge.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Spreading and scattering
all over the placeidiom
bedaub
bell
bestrew
billow
dispersion
disseminate
dotted around
dredge
dusting
encroach on/upon something
fan out
rambling
scatteringly
slap something on
slather
smear
smudge
smudgily
sprinkle

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Physical & chemical processes

diffusion | American Dictionary

diffusion
noun[ U ]
us/dɪˈfju·ʒən/
science
(of gases and liquids) the process of spreading into a surrounding substance
biology
Diffusion is also the method by which substances pass in and out of cells through their membrane (= outside covering).
physics
Diffusion is also the way light spreads when it is reflected from a rough surface or passed through a translucent substance (= substance that allows only some light to pass through).

diffusion | Business English

diffusion
noun[ U ]
uk /dɪˈfjuːʒən/us
MARKETING, COMMUNICATIONS
the process by which information, ideas, changes in behaviour, etc. spread through a group of people:
The research looks at factors influencing the diffusion of innovative products in consumer markets.

Examples of diffusion

diffusion
Thus, the longitudinal diffusion and the length of striations are reduced significantly.
A mechanism is studied of the heterogeneity coefficient dissipation due to molecular diffusion.
Other elements of spatial diffusion, however, also emerge in this research.
The turbulence energy balance is examined, including the separate effects of vertical diffusion of pressure and local kinetic energy.
This would again suggest turbulent diffusion times of around 3000 years, which would then be the time required for achieving global homochirality in the ocean.
A commonly used procedure to estimate turbulent diffusion times is in terms of enhanced turbulent (eddy) diffusivities.
Here we have made the additional assumption that vertical diffusion of solute is negligible.
On the other hand, vertical flows are also important, particularly in their application to the aerosol diffusion in the atmosphere and upper ocean biogeochemistry.
These knots persist for a time of the order of the vertical thermal diffusion time.
Stage 3 is characterized by the diffusion of the standard preverbal particle non along with the growing amount of verbal utterances.
We wanted to test if this diffusion of the ingested fluorophores might be through the process of endocytosis.
Thus, we have performed a study of nonresonant electron diffusion in a single plasma.
Unfavourable dynamics and spin diffusion effects also make a quantitative analysis difficult.
However, the introduction of information diffusion leads to the possibility of multiple equilibria and can expand the parameter space of potential learnable equilibria.
The renormalization method of quasilinear equations to treat the diffusion of magnetic force lines is considered.
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Collocations withdiffusion

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cultural diffusion
This would help to ensure their wide culturaldiffusion.
diffusion barrier
In the presence of a diffusionbarrier, molecules will diffuse more slowly than when in simple aqueous solution.
diffusion method
To further confuse the issue, the gaseous diffusion method was not the only means of producing enriched uranium.
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