Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

overscattering

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: over-scat-ter-ing
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Excessive scattering; scattering too far or too much.

Uncountable

noun

The breaking apart and spreading of biological entities during the preparation of sample slides for the microscope.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"It is indeed a difficult mean to hit between overcrowding and overscattering."
"[…] 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."
"Pre-fixation of embryos in the first fixative solution could decrease the dissociation or overscattering of blastomeres."
"This technique was modified to avoid artifactual loss of chromosomes by overscattering, and the ooplasmic matrix was retained […]"

Etymology

From over- + scattering.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: over

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does overscattering mean?: Excessive scattering; scattering too far or too much.
Where does overscattering come from?: From over- + scattering.

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