scattering

How To Use scattering In A Sentence

• However, there was no sign of desperately needed rain and a westerly roared in from Australia's arid outback, fanning flames and scattering red hot embers to start new blazes.
• Too late - at this speed, it's approximately as effective as scattering thumbtacks in front of advancing armour.
• Geometrical Theory of Diffraction is a fundamental algorithm in electromagnetic radiating and scattering, and programming is a key step for its application.
• In dense media with lossless reflection arising from multiple scattering, the threshold for laser action is greatly reduced.
• Mr. Ettinger's ideas, which he popularized in a 1963 book, "The Prospect of Immortality," spawned what some refer to as the cryonics movement, though by most accounts it is a small endeavor: a scattering of enterprises around the country with dues-paying customers totaling a few thousand, a few hundred of whom have actually been deep-frozen. NYT > Home Page
• The scattering cells consisted of polished borosilicate vials with stoppers.
• Nature and Law compel it: whose direction now is towards grand centripetalism, where before they had ordained heterogeneity and the scattering and aloofness of peoples. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
• The technique is based on tracking the fluorescence or scattering signal of a nanoparticle bound to the molecule of interest.
• The room was full of Legos and random toys scattering the ground.
• See now, rounding the headland, a forlorn hopeless bird, trembling black wings fingering the blowy air, dainty and ghostly, careless of the scattering salt.