overscattering

overscattering

English

Etymology

over- +‎ scattering

Noun

overscattering (uncountable)

1. Excessive scattering; scattering too far or too much.
   • 2008, Shlomo Biderman, Crossing Horizons (page 115)

     […] a pointless anxiety about "overscattering" takes hold, propelling the story to its somewhat ironic finale in which they are desperately scattered upon the face of the earth.

2. (biology) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
   • 1975, Nihon Gakushiin, Proceedings of the Japan Academy (page 54)

     Pre-fixation of embryos in the first fixative solution could decrease the dissociation or overscattering of blastomeres.

   • 1991, E. S. E. Hafez, Assisted Human Reproductive Technology (page 31)

     This technique was modified to avoid artifactual loss of chromosomes by overscattering, and the ooplasmic matrix was retained […]