disperser
English
Etymology
disperse + -er
Noun
disperser (plural dispersers)
- (chemistry) A substance that stabilizes a dispersion; an emulsifier.
- (graph theory) A particular kind of bipartite graph.
- (ecology) An organism that disperses something, such as seeds, in the environment.
- 1996, Charles R. Brown, Mary Bomberger Brown, Coloniality in the Cliff Swallow
- Nesting data from dispersers and nondispersers came from the same set of colonies and were thus directly comparable.
- 2022 September 19, Schultheiss et al., “The abundance, biomass, and distribution of ants on Earth”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, page 1, column 1:
- Ants are integral components of terrestrial ecosystems, owing to their manifold interactions with other organisms. They serve as seed dispersers for plants (myrmecochory), mutualists with sap-sucking insects (trophobionts), and hosts for a wide range of associate organisms (myrmecophiles) and act as both predator and prey.
- 1996, Charles R. Brown, Mary Bomberger Brown, Coloniality in the Cliff Swallow
Synonyms
- (chemistry): dispersant
See also
disperser on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- presiders, respiders
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dis.pɛʁ.se/
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Verb
disperser
- to scatter; to disperse
Conjugation
Conjugation of disperser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | disperser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | dispersant /dis.pɛʁ.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | dispersé /dis.pɛʁ.se/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | disperse /dis.pɛʁs/ | disperses /dis.pɛʁs/ | disperse /dis.pɛʁs/ | dispersons /dis.pɛʁ.sɔ̃/ | dispersez /dis.pɛʁ.se/ | dispersent /dis.pɛʁs/ |
| imperfect | dispersais /dis.pɛʁ.sɛ/ | dispersais /dis.pɛʁ.sɛ/ | dispersait /dis.pɛʁ.sɛ/ | dispersions /dis.pɛʁ.sjɔ̃/ | dispersiez /dis.pɛʁ.sje/ | dispersaient /dis.pɛʁ.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | dispersai /dis.pɛʁ.se/ | dispersas /dis.pɛʁ.sa/ | dispersa /dis.pɛʁ.sa/ | dispersâmes /dis.pɛʁ.sam/ | dispersâtes /dis.pɛʁ.sat/ | dispersèrent /dis.pɛʁ.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | disperserai /dis.pɛʁ.sə.ʁe/ | disperseras /dis.pɛʁ.sə.ʁa/ | dispersera /dis.pɛʁ.sə.ʁa/ | disperserons /dis.pɛʁ.sə.ʁɔ̃/ | disperserez /dis.pɛʁ.sə.ʁe/ | disperseront /dis.pɛʁ.sə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | disperserais /dis.pɛʁ.sə.ʁɛ/ | disperserais /dis.pɛʁ.sə.ʁɛ/ | disperserait /dis.pɛʁ.sə.ʁɛ/ | disperserions /dis.pɛʁ.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ | disperseriez /dis.pɛʁ.sə.ʁje/ | disperseraient /dis.pɛʁ.sə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | disperse /dis.pɛʁs/ | disperses /dis.pɛʁs/ | disperse /dis.pɛʁs/ | dispersions /dis.pɛʁ.sjɔ̃/ | dispersiez /dis.pɛʁ.sje/ | dispersent /dis.pɛʁs/ |
| imperfect2 | dispersasse /dis.pɛʁ.sas/ | dispersasses /dis.pɛʁ.sas/ | dispersât /dis.pɛʁ.sa/ | dispersassions /dis.pɛʁ.sa.sjɔ̃/ | dispersassiez /dis.pɛʁ.sa.sje/ | dispersassent /dis.pɛʁ.sas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | disperse /dis.pɛʁs/ | — | dispersons /dis.pɛʁ.sɔ̃/ | dispersez /dis.pɛʁ.se/ | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
- en ordre dispersé
Further reading
- “disperser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Pronunciation
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Adjective
disperser
- comparative degree of dispers
Adjective
disperser
- inflection of dispers:
- strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
- strong genitive/dative feminine singular
- strong genitive plural