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diffuse

[dih-fyooz, dih-fyoos] / dɪˈfjuz, dɪˈfjus /




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The Black and Diffuse Auroral Science Surveyor focused on unusual dark regions within auroras known as black auroras.

From Science Daily • Feb. 17, 2026

Diffuse X-rays, in blue, were probably created by plasma streaming from the stars and heating the surrounding gas.

From New York Times • May 21, 2024

Diffuse gastric cancer is an inherited disease, and it’s one that he did not wish to pass on.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2023

Diffuse gas in the two galactic haloes would compress on collision, forming a curved structure like the bow wave from a ship moving through water.

From Scientific American • Jan. 12, 2023

Diffuse lesions affect the mind more than those which are circumscribed—that is to say, limited to a certain part of the brain—as if the mental functions required the co-operation of the entire cerebral cortex.

From Mentally Defective Children by Binet, Alfred




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