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Distribution

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Noun

1. distribution, statistical distribution

(statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence

2. dispersion, distribution

the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume

Example Sentences:
'worldwide in distribution'
'the distribution of nerve fibers'
'in complementary distribution'

3. distribution

the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning

4. distribution

the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Distribution

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noun
1. 
the act of distributing or the state or manner of being distributed
2. 
a thing or portion distributed
3. 
arrangement or location
4. business
the process of physically satisfying the demand for goods and services
5. 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)
6. 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
7. law
the apportioning of the estate of a deceased intestate among the persons entitled to share in it
8. law
the lawful division of the assets of a bankrupt among his or her creditors
9. finance
a. 
the division of part of a company's profit as a dividend to its shareholders
b. 
the amount paid by dividend in a particular distribution
10. engineering
the way in which the fuel-air mixture is supplied to each cylinder of a multicylinder internal-combustion engine

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Distribution

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noun
1. 
a distributing or being distributed
; specif.,
a. 
apportionment by law (of funds, property, etc.)
b. 
the process by which commodities get to final consumers, including storing, selling, shipping, and advertising
c. 
frequency of occurrence or extent of existence
2. 
anything distributed; portion; share
3. 
the result of distributing; arrangement
4.  Statistics
the relative arrangement of the elements of a statistical population based on some criterion, as frequency, time, or location

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Distribution

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n.
1. The process of distributing or the condition of being distributed, especially:
a. The process of marketing and supplying goods, especially to retailers.
b. Law The transmission of inherited property to its heirs after taxes, debts, and costs of the estate have been paid.
2. Something distributed; an allotment: distributions from a retirement account.
3. A spatial or temporal array of objects or events, especially:
a. The geographic occurrence or range of an organism.
b. The geographic occurrence or range of a custom, usage, or other feature.
4. Statistics A characterization of the occurrence of the actual unique values in a set of data (as in a frequency distribution) or of the theoretical unique values of a random variable (as in a probability distribution).
5. Mathematics A generalized function used in the study of partial differential equations.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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