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scatter noun. M17.
[from the verb.]
The action or an act of scattering; wide or irregular distribution; dispersion. M17.
A. Price There was a scatter of clapping from the spectators.
A quantity loosely distributed or interspersed; a scattering, a sprinkling. M19.
J. Grigson Serve with a light scatter of parsley. Modern Painters His sketch of..a scatter of boulders around the pothole mouth.
Statistics. The degree to which repeated measurements or observations of a quantity differ; that which is measured by the variance. E20.
Applied Linguistics The results..would clearly benefit from replication with samples of increased size and scatter.
The scattering of light or other radiation; spec. in Radio, used attrib. to denote the use of scattering within the atmosphere to extend the range of radio communication. M20.
Comb.: scatter diagram, scatter plot Statistics a diagram in which two variates are plotted for each of a number of subjects, so that the form of the association between the variates can be seen.
scattergram,
scattergraph nouns (Statistics) = scatter diagram above M20.
scatte'rometer noun a radar designed to provide information about the roughness or the profile of a surface from the way it scatters the incident microwaves M20.