DIFFUSING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diffusing mean? 

• DIFFUSING (adjective)
  The adjective DIFFUSING has 1 sense:

1. spreading by diffusion

  Familiarity information: DIFFUSING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIFFUSING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spreading by diffusion

Synonyms:

diffusing; diffusive; dispersive; disseminative

Similar:

distributive (serving to distribute or allot or disperse)

 Context examples 

That's my manner of diffusing 'em. I don't know where they may come down.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There, Margaret, the sun is for ever visible, its broad disk just skirting the horizon and diffusing a perpetual splendour.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A unit for measuring a pulmonary diffusing capacity adjusted for lung volume expressed in units of gas flow rate (in milliliters per minute) per a unit of pressure (in torrs) per one liter.

(Milliliter per Minute per Millimeters of Mercury per Liter, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit for measuring a pulmonary diffusing capacity expressed in units of gas flow rate (in milliliters per minute) per a unit of pressure (in torrs).

(Milliliter per Minute per Millimeters of Mercury, NCI Thesaurus)

A SI-coherent unit for measuring a pulmonary diffusing capacity adjusted for lung volume and expressed in units of a substance flow rate (in millimoles per minute) per unit of pressure (in kilopascals) per unit of alveolar volume equal to one liter.

(Millimole per Minute per Thousand Pascal per Liter, NCI Thesaurus)

There was a sharp bracing air; the ground was dry; the sea was crisp and clear; the sun was diffusing abundance of light, if not much warmth; and everything was fresh and lively.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)