orientation spreading PATO:0104356 Requested for FLOPO; corresponding temporary class: FLOPO_0985006. Distinguished from radiating (PATO:0005005), which requires expansion from a centre point, and from divergent from (PATO:0002424), which inheres in a bearer whose parts extend in different directions. Not a relational quality: like ascending and the other orientation qualities, spreading describes the direction of the bearer itself within its frame of reference (the axis from which it arises), and does not relate the bearer to a second, independent entity. quality 2026-09-18T00:00:00Z An orientation quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer being directed outward and diverging from a principal axis.