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分散する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Form	Positive	Negative
Dictionary	分ぶん散さんする	分ぶん散さんしない
Polite	分ぶん散さんします	分ぶん散さんしません
Past polite	分ぶん散さんしました	分ぶん散さんしませんでした
Past	分ぶん散さんした	分ぶん散さんしなかった
Te-form	分ぶん散さんして	分ぶん散さんしないで
Desire	分ぶん散さんしたい	分ぶん散さんしたくない
Potential	分ぶん散さんできる	分ぶん散さんできない
Passive	分ぶん散さんされる	分ぶん散さんされない
Causative	分ぶん散さんさせる	分ぶん散さんさせない
Causative passive	分ぶん散さんさせられる	分ぶん散さんさせられない
Volitional	分ぶん散さんしよう
Polite volitional	分ぶん散さんしましょう
Imperative	分ぶん散さんしろ	分ぶん散さんするな
Conditional	分ぶん散さんすれば	分ぶん散さんしなければ
Tara conditional	分ぶん散さんしたら	分ぶん散さんしなかったら

Meanings

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb, intransitive verb

dispersion; scattering; distribution; decentralization

General use for spreading out, breaking up, or distributing things, people, or functions. Can be transitive or intransitive.

リスクを分ぶん散さんするために投とう資し先さきを増ふやした。
I increased my investments to diversify risk.
人じん口こうが都と市しから地ち方ほうへ分ぶん散さんしている。
The population is dispersing from cities to rural areas.

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb, intransitive verb

variance

statistics

Statistical term for the measure of spread in a data set.

このデータの分ぶん散さんを計けい算さんしてください。
Please calculate the variance of this data.

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb, intransitive verb

dispersion

chemistry physics

Physics/chemistry term for the separation of waves or particles, e.g., light dispersion.

プリズムによる光ひかりの分ぶん散さんを観かん察さつした。
We observed the dispersion of light through a prism.

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Usage patterns

〈物もの〉を分ぶん散さんするto disperse/spread something out
工こう場じょうを各かく地ちに分ぶん散さんすることでリスクを減へらした。
They reduced risk by dispersing their factories across various locations.
分ぶん散さんが大おおきい／小ちいさいthe variance is large/small
このデータセットは分ぶん散さんが大おおきい。
This data set has a large variance.
リスクを分ぶん散さんするto diversify/spread risk
投とう資し家かは複ふく数すうの資し産さんにリスクを分ぶん散さんしている。
Investors spread their risk across multiple assets.
〈場ば所しょ〉に分ぶん散さんするto be dispersed across a place
人じん口こうが都と市し周辺ちゅうへんに分ぶん散さんしている。
The population is dispersed around the outskirts of the city.

Kanji

分part, minute of time, segment
散scatter, disperse, spend

Transitive / intransitive

分散 itself functions both transitively and intransitively: transitively as in 業務を分散する (to distribute the work), and intransitively as in 人口が分散する (the population disperses).

Related words

拡かく散さんN1sense 1
拡散 emphasizes spreading out widely and often uncontrollably (like gas or rumors), while 分散 focuses on breaking something into separate parts and distributing them.
分ぶん布ぷN2sense 1
分布 describes the resulting spatial pattern of things being spread out, while 分散 emphasizes the act or process of scattering or breaking apart.
散さん在ざい sense 1
散在 describes things existing scattered here and there as a static state, while 分散 can describe either the ongoing process or result of dispersing.
分ぶん権けん
分散 is a general word for spreading or dispersing anything (population, risk, data), while 分権 is used specifically for distributing governmental or organizational authority.
離り散さん
分散 is a neutral term for spreading out or decentralizing (used in statistics, logistics, etc.), while 離散 specifically implies people or groups being tragically or forcibly scattered.

Opposites· 8

集しゅう中ちゅうN3sense 1
集中 means concentration or centralization, the direct opposite of 分散's scattering or decentralization.
寄よせ集あつめるN1
分散する means to scatter or disperse things, the opposite of 寄せ集める which means to gather scattered things together.
集しゅう積せき
分散 means things scattering or spreading out, the opposite of 集積 which means things gathering together in one place.

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結けっ集しゅう
分散 means to scatter or disperse, the direct opposite of 結集, which means to gather and concentrate into one.
取とりまとめる
分散する means to scatter or disperse, the opposite of 取りまとめる, which means to gather scattered things into one place.
集しゅう約やく
分散 means to scatter or disperse things, the opposite of 集約, which means to gather and consolidate them.
一いち元げん化か
分散 means to spread or scatter things across multiple points, the opposite of 一元化, which consolidates them into one.
密みっ集しゅうN1
分散 means to spread out or disperse, contrasting with 密集, which means to gather closely in one place.

Don't confuse with

分ぶん配ぱいN1sense 1
分配 means to allocate or distribute something to specific recipients in shares, while 分散 means to scatter or spread something out without necessarily assigning shares.
拡かく散さんN1
分散 usually means being distributed or dispersed into separate parts (e.g. risk, data), while 拡散 means spreading out from a source into a wider area.

Word family· 35

共きょう分ぶん散さん
covariance
分ぶん散さん化か
decentralization
分ぶん散さん図ず
dispersion diagram
分ぶん散さん型がた
distributed; decentralized; dispersed
分ぶん散さん媒ばい
dispersion medium

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分ぶん散さん性せい
dispersiveness; dispersibility
分ぶん散さん相そう
dispersed phase
分ぶん散さん系けい
disperse system; dispersoid
分ぶん散さん質しつ
dispersed phase
母ぼ分ぶん散さん
population variance

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Etymology

From 分 (divide) + 散 (scatter). The combination straightforwardly yields the meaning of dividing and scattering.