distribution

Meaning

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.
5. (countable, uncountable) The result of distributing; arrangement.
6. (countable, uncountable) The total number of something sold or delivered to the clients.
7. (countable, uncountable) The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.
8. (countable, uncountable) The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.
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.
10. (countable, uncountable) A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval.
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.
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 (countable, uncountable) The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next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.

Synonyms

allocation

division

delivery

partition

allotment

spreading

dispensation

assignment

circulation

diffusion

apportionment

spread

deal

sharing

dissemination

deliver

dispensing

supply

allot

issue

generalized function

propagation

allocate

marketing

scattering

apportioning

selling

dispersion

assignation

arrangement

statistical distribution

extension

stationing

sale

rate

dividing

proportion

range

distribute

disposition

part

layout

partitioning

hand out

promulgation

disclosure

assign

dealing

extent

expansion

Translations

distribution

Verteilung

distribuzione

distribución

distribuição

Verbreitung

distributie

Distribution

verdeling

répartition

διανομή

توزيع

κατανομή

erogazione

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌdɪstɹəˈbjuːʃən/

Etymology

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

Sentences

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

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