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scatter

 [skat´er]
the diffusion or deviation of x-rays produced by a medium through which the rays pass.
back scatter backward diffusion of x-rays.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

scat·ter

(skat'ĕr),
1. A change in direction of a photon or subatomic particle, as the result of a collision or interaction.
2. The secondary radiation resulting from the interaction of primary radiation with matter.
Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

scat·ter

(skat'ĕr)
1. A change in direction of a photon or subatomic particle, as the result of a collision or interaction.
2. The secondary radiation resulting from the interaction of primary radiation with matter.
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012

scat·ter

(skat'ĕr)
1. Change in direction of a photon or subatomic particle due to collision or interaction.
2. Secondary radiation due to interaction of primary radiation with matter.
Medical Dictionary for the Dental Professions © Farlex 2012
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Fforde's heroine, a shapely scatterbrain called Thursday Next, slips smoothly from her own eccentric reality into the pages of a well-known book and back again in the time it takes to turn a page.
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1949) had been a student of drama, a singer, and a playwright is evident in the manner in which she builds suspense and uses imagery in her intriguing tale, "Scatterbrain," a tender story about a not very bright but gentle woman living in a poor country area and the subservient and painful position she holds in the household.
Such titles, or others like Young Widower, 1987, The Charming Scatterbrain, 1990, or Limits of the Ego, 1989--behind which one divines a dour laughter--apparently suggest psychological readings, but the images thwart the very anthropomorphic conversion they solicit; rather than things seeming more "human," the implication is that people are more like things.
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