| 释义 |
scatteration|skætəˈreɪʃən|
[f. scatter v. + -ation.]
The action of scattering. Also, the fact or condition of being scattered.
1776A. Grant Lett. fr. Mountains (1806) I. 212 After the dissolution and scatteration of last year's happy trio. 1865N.Y. Times 25 Feb., The scatteration of Cobb's forces. 1880‘Mark Twain’ Tramp Abroad xix. 183 A raft..hit the pier in the center and went all to smash and scatteration like a box of matches struck by lightning. 1892Kipling Lett. of Travel (1920) 40 A household spreads itself over plots, maybe, a quarter of a mile apart. A revenue map of a village shows that this scatteration is apparently designed. 1900Engineering Mag. XIX. 750/2 Scatteration of effort is dissipation of energy. 1910Blackw. Mag. July 24/1 Here there is a scatteration, but the tufters..are stopped and laid on to the line of a single stag. 1930R. Fraser Rose Anstey xlix. 328 At night she stared from her bed at a great scatteration of stars. 1936Burlington Mag. June 261/1 The gilt frame of the mirror is not a strong enough colour to correct the consequent scatteration. 1965Economist 6 Feb. 509 A growing desire to end what Mr Walter Lippmann calls ‘globalism and scatteration’ in foreign policy in favour of a concentration on America's ‘primary vital interests’. 1965D. Owen Eng. Philanthropy iv. xx. 559 ‘Scatteration’ philanthropy—spending too small amounts on too many agencies or individuals. |