distribution
Americannoun
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an act or instance of distributing.
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the state or manner of being distributed.
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arrangement; classification.
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something that is distributed.
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the frequency of occurrence or the natural geographic range or place where any item or category of items occurs.
What is the distribution of coniferous forests in the world?
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placement, location, arrangement, or disposition.
The distribution of our troops is a military secret.
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apportionment.
The court decided the distribution of the property among the heirs.
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the delivery or giving out of an item or items to the intended recipients, as mail or newspapers.
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the total number of an item delivered, sold, or given out.
The distribution of our school paper is now 800.
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the marketing, transporting, merchandising, and selling of any item.
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(in bridge and other card games) the way in which the suits of a deck of cards are, or one specific suit is, divided or apportioned in one player's hand or among the hands of all the players.
My distribution was six spades, four hearts, two clubs, and a singleton diamond.
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Economics.
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the division of the aggregate income of any society among its members, or among the factors of production.
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the system of dispersing goods throughout a community.
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Statistics. a set of values or measurements of a set of elements, each measurement being associated with an element.
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Mathematics. a generalized function used especially in solving differential equations.
noun
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the act of distributing or the state or manner of being distributed
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a thing or portion distributed
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arrangement or location
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commerce the process of physically satisfying the demand for goods and services
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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)
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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
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law the apportioning of the estate of a deceased intestate among the persons entitled to share in it
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law the lawful division of the assets of a bankrupt among his creditors
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finance
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the division of part of a company's profit as a dividend to its shareholders
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the amount paid by dividend in a particular distribution
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engineering the way in which the fuel-air mixture is supplied to each cylinder of a multicylinder internal-combustion engine
Other Word Forms
- distributional adjective
- misdistribution noun
- nondistribution noun
- nondistributional adjective
- predistribution noun
- prodistribution adjective
- superdistribution noun
Etymology
Origin of distribution
First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin distribūtiōn-, stem of distribūtiō “division”; equivalent to distribute + -ion
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
He was asked by liana Bouzali, Morgan Stanley’s global head of derivatives, distribution and structuring, how he would construct a hedge-fund portfolio from scratch today.
From MarketWatch
Distillation involves training a weaker model to mimic the probability distributions of a more powerful model, often through analyzing millions of API responses to reverse engineer the “logic” behind the model’s intelligence.
From MarketWatch
When trusts distribute assets to beneficiaries, those assets are valued at the original purchase price, not the fair market value on the date the trust makes its distribution.
From Barron's
So given the regulatory timeline and existing distribution deals, we are years away from any major change to the services currently offered to viewers.
From BBC
He convened the country’s Defense Council to deploy soldiers and equipment around key facilities as well as boost police patrols around power plants, distribution stations, and control centers.
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