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To send things flying in every direction except the one you wanted.
means To throw, drop, or distribute items loosely over a wide area, or to disperse in many directions.
from Middle English, likely a variant of shatter — both share the satisfying violence of things breaking apart and flying outward in the 1200s.
PhysicsLight scatters off particles, painting the sky blue.
CinemaA scatter gun sprays pellets, not precision.
DataScatter plots reveal patterns hiding in chaos.