distribution

Meaning

1. An act of distributing or state of being distributed.
2. An apportionment by law (of funds, property).
3. The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising.
4. Anything distributed; portion; share.
5. The result of distributing; arrangement.
6. The total number of something sold or delivered to the clients.
7. The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.
8. The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.
9. The way in which a player's hand is divided in suits, or in which a particular suit is divided between the players.
10. A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval.
11. 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. A set of bundled software components.
13. The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies.
14. The resolution of a whole into its parts.
15. The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
16. The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next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. A rhetorical technique in which a subject is divided into multiple cases based on some property or properties, and each case is addressed individually.

Concepts

distribution

allocation

division

delivery

partition

allotment

spreading

dispensation

assignment

circulation

spread

apportionment

diffusion

dissemination

sharing

deal

deliver

propagation

generalized function

issue

dispensing

supply

allot

marketing

scattering

dispersion

allocate

selling

apportioning

dividing

arrangement

layout

promulgation

range

statistical distribution

disposition

proportion

rate

distribute

sale

extension

assignation

partitioning

hand out

stationing

part

cast

use

combination

harmony

match

mixture

impartation

editing

distribution of goods

classification

stratification

apportion

radiation

expansion

assessment

prevalence

commercial distribution

economic distribution

distribution range

separation into parts

dealing

location

distributing

assign

batch

dispense

dispensing equipment

drop

shed

load distribution

power distribution

switching

collocation

configuration

disposal

structure

advertising

announcement

publicity

extent

assigning

dispersal

segmentation

share-out

African gray

divide

application

promotion

giving

supplying

decentralization

decentralisation

disclosure

divulgation

popularization

publishing

subdivision

wholesale

distributions

admeasurement

sell

trading

traffic

allottery

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌdɪstɹəˈbjuːʃən/

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin distributio, from distribuere 'to distribute', itself from dis- 'apart' + tribuere 'to' (from tribus).

Sentences

The following table displays the distribution of Group Races by racecourses .

Honkarakenne also has a worldwide distribution channel and several sales offices abroad .