Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not dispersed; not scattered.

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  • adjective Not dispersed

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Examples

  • It does not consider the likelihood that environmental impact of undispersed crude is far greater than the dispersant used to break itup.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Suing EPA Over Gulf Cleanup 2010

  • What we do know is that dispersed oil is more toxic than undispersed oil and dispersed oil plus dispersant is more toxic than undispersed oil.

    Jerry Cope: The Jaws Syndrome; Life Imitates Art On The Gulf Coast; The Crime of the Century Pt II Jerry Cope 2010

  • What we do know is that dispersed oil is more toxic than undispersed oil and dispersed oil plus dispersant is more toxic than undispersed oil.

    Jerry Cope: The Jaws Syndrome; Life Imitates Art On The Gulf Coast; The Crime of the Century Pt II 2010

  • It does not consider the likelihood that environmental impact of undispersed crude is far greater than the dispersant used to break itup.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Suing EPA Over Gulf Cleanup 2010

  • The trouble Sir Keith takes to leave no confusions undispersed, no misunderstandings of his pronouncements unexplained, has become well known ever since … he was lumbered with the roving job of refining, redefining—or re-somethinging—Conservatism.

    THE COMMANDING HEIGHTS DANIEL YERGIN 1998

  • The trouble Sir Keith takes to leave no confusions undispersed, no misunderstandings of his pronouncements unexplained, has become well known ever

    The Commanding Heights DANIEL YERGIN 1998

  • But I have a nagging worry that if this latest could of acrid smoke is left undispersed, somebody, somewhere, might think there's a fire behind it.

    Allard Lowenstein: An Exchange Cummings, Richard 1986

  • She snatched at contemptuous notice of the way that the tail of the woman's gown, which anyway was far too good for any sensible person to wear just going about the house and garden in the morning, was lying in a patch of undispersed frost; but fear re-entered her heart.

    The Judge Rebecca West 1937

  • Not again would he stand at the door, his dark hair damp and rumpled, his eyes blinking at the strong light, while his voice spoke hoarsely out of undispersed sleep.

    The Judge Rebecca West 1937

  • Symonds D'Ewes had endeavoured by his will, which he modelled upon that of De Thou, to preserve undispersed through the ages to come the

    The Great Book-Collectors Charles Isaac Elton 1869

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