distribution

noun distributions · distribucion

1. countable, uncountable An act of distributing or state of being distributed.
2. countable, uncountable An apportionment by law (of funds, property).
3. countable, uncountable The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising.
4. countable, uncountable Anything distributed; portion; share. December 6, 1709, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd before the sons of the clergy at their anniversary-meeting in the Church of St. Paul our charitable distributions
5. countable, uncountable The result of distributing; arrangement. A group of Thai researchers found the spider during an expedition to Phang-Nga province in southern Thailand to research the diversity and distribution of tarantulas in the country.
6. countable, uncountable The total number of something sold or delivered to the clients. The distribution of my little rock magazine is about 3,000.
7. countable, uncountable The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.
8. countable, uncountable The apportionment of income or wealth in a population. The wealth distribution became extremely skewed in the kleptocracy.
9. countable, uncountable The way in which a player's hand is divided in suits, or in which a particular suit is divided between the players. The declarer had 3-6-2-2 distribution.
10. countable, uncountable A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval. In fact, NALP has been at the forefront of educating prospective lawyers on the dangers of focusing on “average” starting salaries. The average is meaningless. The median is just slightly more helpful, and NALP has been begging people to pay attention to the bimodal salary distribution curve that te
11. countable, uncountable 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.
12. countable, uncountable A set of bundled software components. a Linux distribution

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13. countable, uncountable The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies.
14. countable, uncountable The resolution of a whole into its parts.
15. countable, historical, uncountable The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
16. countable, uncountable 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.
17. countable, rhetoric, uncountable A rhetorical technique in which a subject is divided into multiple cases based on some property or properties, and each case is addressed individually. It is alſo called a diſtribucion, when we diuide the whole, into ſeuerall partes, and ſaie we haue foure poynctes, whereof we purpoſe to ſpeake, compꝛehendyng our whole talke within compaſſe of theſame.