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scattering

deflection of particles or radiation through interactions with other objects
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scattering

Summary

scattering ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (241 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • scattering is a type of physical process[2].
  • scattering's Commons category is recorded as Dispersion[3].
  • scattering's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Scattering[4].
  • scattering's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://physics.stackexchange.com/tags/scattering[5].
  • scattering's different from is recorded as acoustic scattering[6].
  • scattering's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[7].

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Definition and Type

scattering is a type of physical process[2].

Why It Matters

scattering ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (241 views/month).[1] scattering has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8] scattering is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[9]

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  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Scattering
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Mathematics
    Subclass of → physical process
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 1026, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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