DISTRIBUTION

distribution

(noun) the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning

distribution

(noun) the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer

distribution, dispersion

(noun) the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume; “worldwide in distribution”; “the distribution of nerve fibers”; “in complementary distribution”

distribution, statistical distribution

(noun) (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

distribution (countable and uncountable, plural distributions)

An act of distributing or state of being distributed.

An apportionment by law (of funds, property).

(business, marketing) The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising.

Anything distributed; portion; share.

The result of distributing; arrangement.

The total number of something sold or delivered to the clients.

The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.

(economics) The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.

(card games) The way in which a player's hand is divided in suits, or in which a particular suit is divided between the players.

(mathematics, statistics) A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval.

(mathematics, differential geometry) A subset of the tangent bundle of a manifold that satisfies certain properties; used to construct the notions of integrability and foliation of a manifold.

(software) A set of bundled software components; distro.

(finance) The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies.

(logic) The resolution of a whole into its parts.

(printing, historical) The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.

(steam engines) The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission.

(rhetoric) A rhetorical technique in which a subject is divided into multiple cases based on some property or properties, and each case is addressed individually.

Source: Wiktionary

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Dis`tri*bu"tion, n. Etym: [L. distributio: cf. F. distribution.]

1. The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate among heirs or children. The phenomena of geological distribution are exactly analogous to those of geography. A. R. Wallace.

2. Separation into parts or classes; arrangement of anything into parts; disposition; classification.

3. That which is distributed. "Our charitable distributions." Atterbury.

4. (Logic)

Definition: A resolving a whole into its parts.

5. (Print.)

Definition: The sorting of types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.

6. (Steam Engine)

Definition: The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston; viz., admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission. Geographical distribution, the natural arrangements of animals and plants in particular regions or districts.

Syn.

– Apportionments; allotment; dispensation; disposal; dispersion; classification; arrangement.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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