This music was conceived with high aims - not just spiritual and cosmic, but as a kind of therapy - and presented in a secular concert hall rather than in a place of worship, it quickly diffused.

'These stone walls would quickly diffuse thought waves.'

But the light from a flash diffuses quickly in water, scattered by suspended particles that also tend to reflect back into the lens.

IF you love hot peppers, you know what Amal Naj is talking about in "Peppers: A Story of Hot Pursuits" when he describes that "bite" at the tip of your tongue that quickly diffuses into pleasure.

Ivan asked, but his wry smile quickly diffused Danica's sudden frown.

If it does come in contact with water, though, it will combine with the atoms of both oxygen and hydrogen to form strontium hydroxide and pure hydrogen gas which quickly diffuses in the air.

The Shock Blast attachment expels a conical pattern of stripped Dark Matter particles that diffuse quickly in atmosphere.

If the channel did not exist, the indole formed at an α active site would quickly diffuse away and be lost to the cell as it is hydrophobic and can easily cross membranes.

In the wake of Billie Jean King's openness about her sexual preference, the issue quickly diffused.

In the next hundred years, it quickly diffused throughout the Mediterranean area, spread by Arabs after they conquered the Sassanid Persian Empire and many territories from the Byzantine Empire, including the Levant, Armenia and North Africa.