non-dispersive
They use dispersive winged aphids to ensure that populations mostly remain at low densities.
The production of CFC gases for dispersive use began to be phased out during the 1990s.
They used energy dispersive X-ray microanalysis.
Metamaterials are dispersive, meaning the angle of refraction depends very sensitively on the frequency of light.

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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Examples of dispersive

dispersive
A comparison of scutellar and aleurone electron-dense particles by transmission electron microscopy including energy-dispersive x-ray analysis.
For later use we introduce a very interesting class of semi-dispersive billiards, that of cylindric ones.
Physically, the medium is a dispersive one in which local disturbances are propagated outwards in all directions.
It is clear that the calculation conducted with a non-dispersive plasma frequency yields an unphysical result.
This, therefore, favours waves which are the least dispersive or most coherent.
In these computations the dispersive part of was ignored.
For dispersive systems the method of stationary phase is the more fundamental one.
The related problems we have in mind are governed by additional dissipative and dispersive forcing terms.
This ' dispersive ' phase was gradually replaced by a less-active but increasingly infective phase.
This high frequency part of the spectrum may be attributed to dispersive nonlinear processes.
One main model they suggested was a dispersive billiard with a hole.
Optical solitons in fibres form as the nonlinearity balances the dispersive spreading of a guided wavepacket.
Let us now consider a situation where we can neglect the dispersive term.
We study the entropy stability of difference approximations to nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws, and related time-dependent problems governed by additional dissipative and dispersive forcing terms.
The dispersive effects are essential for the nonlinear dynamics (see the last section); therefore, it is important to reproduce them correctly.
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