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chaos with a head start, particles refusing to agree on a destination
means Spread out irregularly over an area, or mentally disorganized and unable to focus.
from From the verb 'scatter,' which surfaced in Middle English (scateren) and is likely a variant of 'shatter' — the two words share a sound and a sense of things flying apart. The deeper roots are murky, possibly tied to a Germanic word for tossing or strewing. The '-ed' simply turns the act of throwing things in all directions into the state of having ended up that way.
- light trick
- scattered sunlight makes the sky blue, not the air
- data term
- scatter plots reveal patterns hiding in raw chaos
- wartime word
- scatter raids spread bombers to dodge defenses
- seed strategy
- plants scatter offspring far to outrun their parents
- mind state
- scattered focus splits attention into useless little fragments
scattered disk — region of icy bodies beyond neptune's orbit, containing thousands of objects including eris and makemake
scattered light phenomenon — rayleigh scattering causes blue sky during day and red sky at sunset due to atmospheric particles