diffusion
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Another important process is diffusion, the natural spreading of particles through a fluid.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
And the rate of AI diffusion in the U.S. had some surprises, too, according to separate research from the institute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Rombach, 33, helped develop latent diffusion, a breakthrough that underpins many of today's AI image-generation systems.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
The team say that in the past, Fed officials including Janet Yellen when she was vice chair, and current Gov. Christopher Waller, have cited diffusion data.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
A New World example of technological diffusion is metallurgy, which spread from the Andes via Panama to Mesoamerica.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
"If countries are found to be significantly and persistently abusing red notices and diffusions, then they should be suspended from the system for a period of time," says Keith.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2026
The clear sculpture that results is meant to afford the viewer a purely sensual delight in the infinite variety of light, its perpetual diffractions, spontaneous diffusions and prismatic permutations that can go on forever.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a member of the British trio Cream, he transformed simple blues lines into brilliant horizontal diffusions of sound.
From Time Magazine Archive
The author exhibits the result of thoughtful study in his expressed views upon the mooted questions of racial origins and diffusions.
From Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 by John Wesley Powell
The inmates we found pious, sensible, and excellent persons, who had devoted many years among their heathen neighbors in philanthropic diffusions of the Gospel.
From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise
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Life Science: Cell Biology
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