adjective

1. separating and going in various directions
2. distributed over a wide area, esp. at irregular intervals
3. distributed in small numbers among several or many candidates: said of votes

noun

1. the act or process of one that scatters
2. a small amount of something spread out or interspersed in a medium
3. Physics the process by which the direction of motion of radiation or particles is changed randomly when passing through a medium, caused by collisions of the constituents of the radiation with particles in the medium