distri'butional

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distribution (ˌdɪstrɪˈbjuːʃən)

—n
1.	the act of distributing or the state or manner of being distributed
2.	a thing or portion distributed
3.	arrangement or location
4.	commerce the process of physically satisfying the demand for goods and services
5.	economics the division of the total income of a community among its members, esp between labour incomes (wages and salaries) and property incomes (rents, interest, and dividends)
6.	statistics the set of possible values of a random variable, or points in a sample space, considered in terms of new theoretical or observed frequency: a normal distribution
7.	law the apportioning of the estate of a deceased intestate among the persons entitled to share in it
8.	law the lawful division of the assets of a bankrupt among his creditors
9.	finance
	a. the division of part of a company's profit as a dividend to its shareholders
	b. the amount paid by dividend in a particular distribution
10.	engineering the way in which the fuel-air mixture is supplied to each cylinder of a multicylinder internal-combustion engine

distri'butional

—*adj*

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