"overscattering" meaning in English

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          "text": "It is indeed a difficult mean to hit between overcrowding and overscattering.",
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          "ref": "2008, Shlomo Biderman, Crossing Horizons, page 115:",
          "text": "[…] a pointless anxiety about \"overscattering\" takes hold, propelling the story to its somewhat ironic finale in which they are desperately scattered upon the face of the earth.",
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        "Excessive scattering; scattering too far or too much."
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          "text": "Pre-fixation of embryos in the first fixative solution could decrease the dissociation or overscattering of blastomeres.",
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        "(biology) The breaking apart and spreading of biological entities during the preparation of sample slides for the microscope."
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