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distribution

/ˌdɪstɹəˈbjuːʃən/

Phonetics

/ˌdɪstɹəˈbjuːʃən/

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noun

  • An act of distributing or state of being distributed.

  • An apportionment by law (of funds, property).

  • 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.

    Example: The distribution of my little rock magazine is about 3,000.
  • The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.

  • The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.

    Example: The wealth distribution became extremely skewed in the kleptocracy.
  • The way in which a player's hand is divided in suits, or in which a particular suit is divided between the players.

    Example: The declarer had 3-6-2-2 distribution.
  • A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval.

  • 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.

  • A set of bundled software components; distro.

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

  • The resolution of a whole into its parts.

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  • (steam engines) The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next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

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