Diffuse and Diffusion

verb

• Move outward.
  • usage: "The soldiers fanned out"
  • synonyms: spread, spread out, fan out
• Spread or diffuse through.
  • usage: "An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration"; "music penetrated the entire building"; "His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks"
  • synonyms: permeate, pervade, penetrate, interpenetrate, imbue, riddle
• Cause to become widely known.
  • usage: "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news"
  • synonyms: circulate, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, disperse, pass around

adjective

• Spread out; not concentrated in one place.
  • usage: "a large diffuse organization"
• Of light. ( transmitted from a broad light source or reflected)
  • synonyms: soft, diffused
• Lacking conciseness.
  • usage: "a diffuse historical novel"

• (v.i.) To pass by spreading every way, to diffuse itself.
• (v.t.) To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse information.
• (a.) Poured out; widely spread; not restrained; copious; full; especially, of style, opposed to concise or terse; verbose; prolix; as, a diffuse style; a diffuse writer.

• (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