Circulating and Diffusion

verb

• Become widely known and passed on.
  • usage: "the rumor spread"; "the story went around in the office"
  • synonyms: go around, spread, circulate
• Cause to become widely known.
  • usage: "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news"
  • synonyms: circulate, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse, pass around
• Cause be distributed.
  • usage: "This letter is being circulated among the faculty"
  • synonyms: circulate, pass around, pass on, distribute
• Move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point.
  • usage: "Blood circulates in my veins"; "The air here does not circulate"
  • synonyms: circulate
• Move in circles.
  • synonyms: circle, circulate
• Cause to move in a circuit or system.
  • usage: "The fan circulates the air in the room"
  • synonyms: circulate
• Move around freely.
  • usage: "She circulates among royalty"
  • synonyms: circulate
• Cause to move around.
  • usage: "circulate a rumor"
  • synonyms: mobilize, mobilise, circulate

adjective

• Passing from one to another.
  • usage: "circulating bills and coins"

• (n.) The act of passing by osmosis through animal membranes, as in the distribution of poisons, gases, etc., through the body. Unlike absorption, diffusion may go on after death, that is, after the blood ceases to circulate.
• (n.) The act of diffusing or the state of being diffused; a spreading; extension; dissemination; circulation; dispersion.

noun

• Physics) the process in which there is movement of a substance from an area of high concentration of that substance to an area of lower concentration. (
• The spread of social institutions (and myths and skills) from one society to another.
• The property of being diffused or dispersed.
  • synonyms: dissemination
• The act of dispersing or diffusing something.
  • usage: "the dispersion of the troops"; "the diffusion of knowledge"
  • synonyms: dispersion, dispersal, dissemination