dispersés

Dispersés is the plural form of the past participle of the French verb disperser, used as an adjective meaning scattered or spread out. It agrees in gender and number with the noun it modifies (dispersé, dispersée, dispersés, dispersées). The root is Latin dispersus, and the term appears in various technical and descriptive contexts.

In geography and urban planning, the expression population dispersée describes settlement patterns in which residents live in widely separated locations rather than in a single concentrated core. Such patterns are associated with low population density, dispersed housing, and reliance on transportation networks to connect distant places.

In biology and ecology, dispersal refers to the movement of individuals away from their origin or from crowded populations, leading to a dispersed spatial distribution. Mechanisms include seed dispersal by wind, water, or animals; animal dispersal due to resource gradients or territorial competition; and dispersal of immature life stages in marine and terrestrial ecosystems. Dispersal influences gene flow, species distributions, and ecological interactions.

In sociology and humanitarian contexts, the term can describe people who have been displaced within a country or across borders. While “personnes déplacées” or “réfugiés” are common terms, “dispersés” may be used descriptively to convey scattering or fragmentation of a population, though it is less formal as a stand-alone category.

In physics and optics, dispersé can describe light or particles that are spread or diffused rather than directed, as in dispersed light. Overall, dispersés conveys the idea of scattering or distribution over a wider area across multiple domains.