spread out

Friction piles spread out the load of the building vertically, allowing much more of the underlying soils to be used to support the structure without becoming overwhelmed.

You can see how this small spill could spread out in an aquifer, contaminating other wells and ruining the resource for everyone.

My rock bolts are just actual bolts with large fender washers to spread out the load.

With the cutoff wall, the equipotential lines are spread out.

So, we kind of try to separate that so the menu mix is spread out and one employee isn't getting hammered with every sandwich.

Other airlines have tried to speed things up by ditching assigned seating altogether, assuming that passengers naturally spread out, easing congestion.

When talking about populations, the number of organisms in a specific area tells us how close together or spread out the population is.

It has redundancies, multiple paths that power can take to get to the same destination, and power users and producers are spread out, reducing the chance that they could be impacted all at once.

The t-shirt material is stretchy, so when the vertical load is transferred into the reinforcement, it spreads out and deforms.