Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Widely; extensively; in every direction.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a diffusive manner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a diffusive manner
  • adverb With regard to diffusion

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Examples

  • In this case, the sunlight is assumed to be reflected by something like white sand (white in the infrared (!), whatever color that corresponds to) and is "diffusively" reflected.

    ArmsControlWonk 2009

  • In this case, the sunlight is assumed to be reflected by something like white sand (white in the infrared (!), whatever color that corresponds to) and is "diffusively" reflected.

    ArmsControlWonk 2009

  • And now that repugnance is very nearly annihilated how strange it would be to say we forbid you under severe legal restrictions from using this precaution which has been so long, so diffusively, so earnestly and so effectually recommended.

    Letter 111 2009

  • On a probably completely unrelated note, I've been looking at the issue of modeling heat absorption by the surface diffusively as an improvement over the single-time-constant fixed heat capacity approximation.

    Rabett Run EliRabett 2009

  • For resilience units have epoxy coated die cast bodies allied to diffusively patterned borosilicate lamp glass and silicone gasket sealing.

    New CAP 437 Compliant Heli Deck LED Light for Hazardous Areas and Harsh Environments Thatsnews 2008

  • For resilience units have epoxy coated die cast bodies allied to diffusively patterned borosilicate lamp glass and silicone gasket sealing.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Thatsnews 2008

  • To perhaps move the conversation forward a bit, now that quite a few people have mentioned it... one of the things that I've noticed is that I *have* picked up, diffusively, an interesting mannerism that is often a "female mannerism" according to books/studies, and have even integrated it into my "real life" speech.

    Virtual Transvestitism: An Introduction 2006

  • It swallowed up also the whole country of south Judea, which was more generally marked out by two names, 'The Upper and the Nether South': more particularly and diffusively, as some of the Jews please, it is divided into seven parts ...

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • In consequence, its mild light is due to the myriads of sparkling crystals, which diffusively reflect the rays of the sun.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • I am of opinion, therefore, that a finished Orator should not only possess the talent (which, indeed, is peculiar, to himself) of speaking copiously and diffusively: but that he should also borrow the assistance of it's nearest neighbour, the art of Logic.

    Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. Marcus Tullius Cicero

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