distribution
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?
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.
the marketing, transporting, merchandising, and selling of any item.
(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.
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.
Statistics. a set of values or measurements of a set of elements, each measurement being associated with an element.
Mathematics. a generalized function used especially in solving differential equations.
Origin of distribution
1Other words from distribution
- 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
- pro·dis·tri·bu·tion, adjective
- su·per·dis·tri·bu·tion, noun
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How to use distribution in a sentence
Item 15 “IRA distributions”… Last time I checked, my IRA had 11 bitcoins in a Mt. Gox account.
Up to a Point: I Do My Own Taxes With No Help, Except From a Couple of Bloody Marys | P. J. O’Rourke | April 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe National Longitudinal Survey of Youth gathered self-reported data from 1985 that sampled eye-color distributions of Americans.
That means that you will be liable for capital gains on distributions.
The Reds argue that Bangkok can no longer lord it over the rest of the country without more equitable distributions.
Boaz may be exhibited as a specimen of that prudential charity which should always regulate our distributions.
Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I | Francis Augustus Cox
So each took one "unsight and unseen" aid made the more exact distributions among themselves later.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete | Albert Bigelow PaineWe see indeed that, from this moment, the Senate itself took the initiative of new distributions of land to the people.
History of Julius Caesar Vol. 1 of 2 | Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873.Yet certain morphological distributions are too specific in character to be so lightly dismissed.
Language | Edward SapirA sudden stoppage of the customary supply rendered impossible the usual distributions in Rome, Ravenna, Milan.
History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) | John William Draper
British Dictionary definitions for distribution
/ (ˌdɪstrɪˈbjuːʃən) /
the act of distributing or the state or manner of being distributed
a thing or portion distributed
arrangement or location
commerce the process of physically satisfying the demand for goods and services
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)
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
law the apportioning of the estate of a deceased intestate among the persons entitled to share in it
law the lawful division of the assets of a bankrupt among his creditors
finance
the division of part of a company's profit as a dividend to its shareholders
the amount paid by dividend in a particular distribution
engineering the way in which the fuel-air mixture is supplied to each cylinder of a multicylinder internal-combustion engine
Derived forms of distribution
- distributional, adjective
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Cultural definitions for distribution
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