dispersal

Examples of dispersing

dispersing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

We may well ask whether such elaborate vertical cultural transmission could occur at all if females were dispersing from natal groups, as happens among chimpanzees.
In reality, of course, the grant reduction heavily influenced national contributions to social benefits, dispersing obligations between levels of government.
It is hard to distinguish between insects captured dispersing to or from the site, foraging in the site or passing through.
In the mean time, the automatic cleaning mechanism will be designed into the stirring-fry and dispersing mechanism.
The police responded by dispersing the marchers with tear gas.
The mitochondria appear to be dispersing from the midpiece.
Dispersing the working class geographically meant reducing its ability to cause trouble for the country's military rulers.
The adults emerge, and, instead of dispersing in all directions, remain near at hand, mate, and finally oviposit in the tubs.
It seems likely that many dioecious-fig pollinators are dispersing shorter distances.
The high connectivity among modules helps provide greater structural rigidity and more load paths for dispersing crash forces.
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