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diffuser
  1. Any person or thing that diffuses.
  2. A device designed to diffuse a scent efficiently.
  3. (optics) Any device that or spreads out or scatters light, making the light appear softer.
  4. (automotive) A shaped section of a car's underbody which improves the car's aerodynamic properties.
  5. (thermodynamics) A mechanical device that is designed to control the characteristics of a fluid at the entrance to a thermodynamic open system.
  6. (sewage treatment) An aerating device consisting of a membrane with fine pores, through which air is blown to generate small bubbles.
  7. (cooking) A cooking item that can be placed above a stove heating element or burner to separate the cooking utensil from the heat source.
  8. A hairdryer attachment that diffuses the flow of air.
  9. Synonyms:
diffusion
  1. The act of diffusing or dispersing something, or the property of being diffused or dispersed; dispersion.
  2. (physics) The scattering of light by reflection from a rough surface, or by passage through a translucent medium.
  3. (physics) The intermingling of the molecules of a fluid due to random thermal agitation.
  4. The spread of cultural or linguistic practices, or social institutions, in one or more communities.
  5. (physics) Exchange of airborne media between regions in space in an apparently random motion of a small scale.
  6. The movement of water vapor from regions of high concentration (high water vapor pressure) toward regions of lower concentration.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “The pace and diffusion of IT innovation are so rapid, that businesses must now compete on internet time.”
      “Internet and television, the two most important mediums for diffusion of news, heavily incentivize speed and quantity.”
      “This interpretive conundrum reinforces the author's use of diffusion, which implies neither strength nor weakness.”
diffusivity
  1. A tendency to diffuse
  2. (physics) a coefficient of diffusion; especially the amount of heat that passes through a given area in unit time
  3. Examples:
    1. “It is this alteration in the diffusivity of the mesopause region that allows structures in the electron density to persist at observable scales.”
      “Such drop in electron thermal diffusivity at the positive shear region was also observed in the high beta-p mode plasmas at high triangularity.”
      “The normal diffusivity of the ions is in accord with the high activity of water in the channel.”
diffusibility
  1. (physics) A measure of the speed of diffusion.
  2. (figuratively, e.g. of a disease) Capacity for spreading.
  3. Examples:
    1. “In contrast, chi exhibits the characteristics of generality, commonality, diffusibility, inclusiveness, and permeability of matter.”
      “Graham studied the diffusibility of substances in solution through the parchment membrane of a simple dialyzer.”
      “Here also the diffusibility of the salt was too powerful for the force brought against it.”
diffuseness
  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being diffuse.
  2. (countable) The result or product of being diffuse.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Linda's diffuseness made it challenging to comprehend her message as she constantly intertwined unnecessary details and convoluted descriptions.”
      “The professor's lecture lacked clarity and conciseness, instead exhibiting a diffuseness of information that left the students confused.”
      “Their immense and sandy diffuseness is like the prairie, or the desert, and their incongruities are like the last deliration.”
diffuson
  1. (mathematics) A mathematical object relating to diffusive motion, used in the theory of electron transport in disordered systems.
diffusionism
  1. The belief that changes in one culture are caused by diffusion of ideas from another, especially the West.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The concept of diffusionism, however, and the idea of a historical archetype discernible from distinct and different contemporary practices are increasingly distrusted.”
      “His theoretical approach blended together Marxism, diffusionism, and functionalism.”
      “Not since the heady days of twentieth-century diffusionism has human mobility become such a prominent feature of archaeological narratives.”
diffusate
  1. (chemistry) Material which, in the process of catalysis, has diffused or passed through the separating membrane.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Calculation of the ion equilibria in milk diffusate and comparison with experiment.”
diffusant
  1. A substance that diffuses through something.
diffusiveness
  1. The state or quality of being diffusive.
  2. Examples:
    1. “On Aquinas's existential account of the good, we are called to imitate God's diffusiveness as best we can.”
      “It is a known fact in human nature, that its affections are commonly weak in proportion to the distance or diffusiveness of the object.”
      “The study was also devoted to analysis of technical regulation of road safety issues, and diffusiveness in technical regulation has been found.”
diffusedness
  1. The state or quality of being diffused.
diffusometry
  1. (physics) the study or measurement of diffusion
diffusability
  1. The quality of being diffusable.
diffusibleness
diffusabilities
  1. plural of diffusability
diffusibilities
  1. plural of diffusibility
diffusivenesses
  1. plural of diffusiveness
diffusionisms
  1. plural of diffusionism
diffusenesses
diffusivities
  1. plural of diffusivity
diffusates
  1. plural of diffusate
diffusants
  1. plural of diffusant
diffusions
  1. plural of diffusion
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The electricians worked hard as Christophe had them bring out big diffusions and set them up in front of each street lamp, 4 or 5 meters up?”
      “On the gallery's Website, the exhibition's works, with their multiple disjuncts and diffusions, flattened to reveal a discrete sensibility.”
      “The second part is written for probabilists and it studies the case where fast motions are certain Markov processes such as random evolutions and, in particular, diffusions.”
diffusers
  1. plural of diffuser
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Some fan diffusers are powered by both electricity and batteries making them quite portable.”
      “I will be talking about acoustic diffusers, how we might deal with echo problems in railway stations.”
      “The diffusers provide a unified, decorative look to the ceiling, reducing glare and spreading the light smoothly over a large area.”
diffusons
  1. plural of diffuson
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