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[dis-truh-byoo-shuh

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noun

an act or instance of distributing.

the state or manner of being distributed.

arrangement; classification.

something that is distributed.

the frequency of occurrence or the natural geographic range or place where any item or category of items occurs: What is the distribution of coniferous forests in the world?

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placement, location, arrangement, or disposition: The distribution of our troops is a military secret.

apportionment: The court decided the distribution of the property among the heirs.

the delivery or giving out of an item or items to the intended recipients, as mail or newspapers.

the total number of an item delivered, sold, or given out: The distribution of our school paper is now 800.

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the marketing, transporting, merchandising, and selling of any item.

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(in bridge and other card games) the way in which the suits of a deck of cards are, or one specific suit is, divided or apportioned in one player's hand or among the hands of all the players: My distribution was six spades, four hearts, two clubs, and a singleton diamond.

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Economics.

the division of the aggregate income of any society among its members, or among the factors of production.

the system of dispersing goods throughout a community.

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Statistics. a set of values or measurements of a set of elements, each measurement being associated with an element.

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Mathematics. a generalized function used especially in solving differential equations.

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Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English (< Anglo-French ) < Latin distribūtiōn- (stem of distribūtiō). See distribute, -ion

Related forms

dis·tri·bu·tion·al, adjective

mis·dis·tri·bu·tion, noun

non·dis·tri·bu·tion, noun

non·dis·tri·bu·tion·al, adjective

pre·dis·tri·bu·tion, noun

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pro·dis·tri·bu·tion, adjective

su·per·dis·tri·bu·tion, noun

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Example Sentences

The company will cut the number of operating groups to two from three, and consolidate plants and distribution centers.

Formulate and balance long and short range plans and budgets with respect to utility distribution upgrades.

The global distribution of income is becoming ever more unequal.

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The company will cut the number of operating groups to two from three, and consolidate plants and distribution centers.

Formulate and balance long and short range plans and budgets with respect to utility distribution upgrades.

The global distribution of income is becoming ever more unequal.

Distribution refers to the way something is spread out or arranged over a geographic area.

Also, seed distribution from cultivated fields to distant locales should also include native animals.

It will be impossible to sustain the unequal land distribution as the population increases.

New varieties and hybrids appear every year, but distribution is spotty in local nurseries.

Manufacturing and distribution costs are approaching zero.

They are trying to keep the rap labels they buy independent rather than integrating them into their huge distribution networks.

Then calculate the distribution of the final grades.

Since the cost of digital distribution is almost zero, the thinking goes, cinemas ought to gamble on more obscure products.

Human settlement is affected by the distribution of resources.

In addition, such pristine clouds should correlate with distribution of dark matter clouds, if this model is correct.

Distribution of some important end-Cretaceous sites around the world.

Nintendo could also use digital distribution to find an audience for entirely new styles of gameplay.

Fellman mobilized the distribution team to push exhibitors to immediately accept a new trailer.

Ask your account manager for more information on bonus distribution for this special report.

For one, dollars get their meaning/value from the mechanisms of distribution.

Ask students what patterns can be seen in the distribution of population densities by state.

The distribution of wealth is the basis of personal wealth.

The main arguments it takes are the average and the standard deviation of the distribution you want.

But the small brewers have to overcome some opponents with big names and deep pockets: the powerful beer distribution lobby.

New technology can also work wonders for distribution.

Part of the problem, or reason for conflict, is that there is unequal distribution of the planet's usable freshwater.

What matters to me is whether or not the distribution of farming practices differs.

Lofgren's words do not mean she favors online piracy or the online distribution of counterfeited drugs.

People have no idea how skewed the wealth distribution has become.

Have students look at the map to see the shark's geographical distribution.

Forget for a moment that the distribution of wealth is uneven.

Price said digital distribution is another way to lower the barriers to entry for smaller filmmakers.

Distribution can be much more easily discussed in nominal terms.

Geographers ask these questions to make sense of the distribution and concentrations of human populations.

And once better nets are available, researchers will be able to objectively judge the effectiveness of the distribution programs.

The studios will foot the bills for the digital equipment with savings they make on distribution.

View a map gallery showing the global distribution of lightning flash density.

They fingered the spots based on two theories on the distribution of biological species.

So the genre's boosters are reinventing music distribution for a new era.

Weather patterns are driven by energy, or probably accurately, differences in energy distribution.

Of course, the record companies weren't happy to see their monopoly on distribution challenged.

As another example, there is often value in the distribution of metric, not in its average.

The record industry and its tech counterparts make their first moves into digital music distribution.

One would have thought that the coconut palms' distribution would be based on the ocean drift of pods and seeds.

Looking at a new way of film distribution where filmmakers maintain full control over their work from beginning to end.

Components, such as the switch pictured here, control the flow of electricity as well as monitor the distribution grid.

Inequality is much greater at the top of the income distribution than in the middle.

The distribution of these missing transcripts was quite interesting.

Google's power is in being not the press, but the distribution channel that so many people use.

Businesses are beginning to turn to artificially intelligent bots to streamline their warehouses and distribution centers.

The big players in the industry control distribution and pricing, and that's slowly strangling the.

But when those at the bottom don't understand the unequal distribution of wealth.

It is my understanding that only the earnings component of the distribution is subject to tax at the time of a distribution.

Since then, however, only two states have privatised distribution.

By comparing maps of fish population distribution and ocean currents, for.

Plug-in electric cars could destabilize the distribution of power.

He worked on computer simulations of the radiation near black holes and the distribution of galaxies.

And prove those copyrights weren't used to monopolize and stifle the distribution of digital music.

They must be set against the fact that digital distribution is a low-cost way of reaching huge audiences.

Have students return to the online crocodilian distribution map and select one crocodile, one alligator, and one gharial.

The problems with the world's water supply, from distribution and overdevelopment to bacteria and diseases.

Observers expect a three- to five-year period before changes on the music sales and distribution landscape are complete.

Surely the distribution of the benefits is also relevant.

And building a local infrastructure, including a brewery and distribution network, requires huge amounts of capital.

But the artists argue online distribution leaves them with too small a profit.

Each one combines cheap and widely available tools, the internet for distribution and talented people with time to spare.

Leatherbacks have the widest global distribution of all reptile species, and possibly of any vertebrate.

Even the distribution of the seeds is carefully controlled.

After a long battle, the drug company agreed to settle charges of illegal marketing and distribution.

As global climate change begins to affect the distribution of.

The mostly unseen freight distribution network delivers our goods and supports our lifestyle.

Development of the system began amid a fight over the fairness of geographic boundaries that govern the distribution of organs.

Think of the banks' range of possible daily losses and gains as a distribution.

Show students this beluga distribution map, and explain that beluga live in the purple zone on this map.

The more viable answer to this problem is to legalize and control distribution.

Because the distribution of weight in the armor requires the wearer to use more energy to swing his arms or move his legs.

Mittelstand firms have refined their supply chains, factories and distribution networks to reach far-flung markets more quickly.

However, it is the inefficiencies in distribution channels that is causing starvation in many.

Half the studios have closed up their indie production and distribution arms.

The supply is plentiful, but the distribution uneven.

The pattern of disease distribution is not a simple slice-nor does it follow the stroke belt.

These limitations are mostly due to the length and global distribution of instrumental climate records.

The regional distribution of these poverty traps is not random.

Two water reservoirs with the same isotope distribution is unlikely if they had different origins.

Perhaps it will move the distribution of where the stronger tornadoes occur.

Maybe you could save a lot of carbon by ending the generation, printing and distribution.

Distribution refers to where in the body the chemical goes to exert its effects.

New observations of the distribution of dark matter in a distant cluster of.

But attempts to directly link local changes in species distribution and biodiversity to.

America's transmission and distribution network needs to be upgraded no matter what mix of generation is used.

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World English Dictionary

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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Word Origin & History

distribution

late 14c., from L. distributionem, from distribuere "deal out in portions," from dis- "individually" + tribuere "assign, allot."

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Medical Dictionary

distribution dis·tri·bu·tion (dĭs'trə-by&oomacr;'shən)
n.

The extension of the branches of arteries or nerves to the tissues and organs.
The area in which the branches of an artery or a nerve terminate, or the area supplied by such an artery or nerve.
A set of numbers and their frequency of occurrence from measurements within a statistical population.

dis'tri·bu'tion·al adj.

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Cultural Dictionary

distribution definition

The process of marketing and merchandising goods. Also, the way in which wealth or goods or services are allotted, as in the distribution of wealth.

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Computing Dictionary

distribution definition

1. A software source tree packaged for distribution; but see kit.
2. A vague term encompassing mailing lists and Usenet newsgroups (but not BBS fora); any topic-oriented message channel with multiple recipients.
3. An information-space domain (usually loosely correlated with geography) to which propagation of a Usenet message is restricted; a much-underused feature.
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