Scattered
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: randomly distributed. covering three eighths to four eighths of the sky. affecting 30 percent to 50 percent of a forecast zone.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.
Example sentence: I had an Arabic background. but I lived a very scattered childhood. I didn't belong to any one culture, which meant I didn't have musical geographies in my head.
Distributed
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To divide into portions and dispense.
Example sentence: Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.