Meaning of distribution | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An act of distributing or state of being distributed.
   countable, uncountable
2. An apportionment by law (of funds, property).
   countable, uncountable
3. distribusie, verspreiding تَوْزيع разпределяне distribuição rozdělování, rozdání die Verteilung distribution; fordeling; uddeling διανομή, κατανομήdistribución jaotamine توزیع؛ پراکندگی jakelu distributionתפוצה, חלוקה वितरण, बांट raspodjela, razdjela elosztás pembagian úthlutun; dreifing distribuzione 分配 분배, 유통 skirstymas, dalinimas izdalīšana; sadale; izplatība pengagihan verspreidingfordeling, utdeling, distribuering dystrybucja, rozkład توزيع كول distribuição distribuire распределение dist...
4. The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising.
   countable, uncountable
5. distribución.
6. Anything distributed; portion; share.
   countable, uncountable
7. The process of distributing or the condition of being distributed, especially:a. The process of marketing and supplying goods, especially to retailers.
8. The result of distributing; arrangement.
   countable, uncountable
9. Something distributed; an allotment: distributions from a retirement account.
10. The total number of something sold or delivered to the clients.
    countable, uncountable
11. A spatial or temporal array of objects or events, especially:a. The geographic occurrence or range of an organism.
12. 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).
    Statistics
13. The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.
    countable, uncountable
14. Mathematics A generalized function used in the study of partial differential equations.
    Mathematics
15. The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.
    countable, uncountable
16. the act of distributing or the state or manner of being distributed
17. The way in which a player's hand is divided in suits, or in which a particular suit is divided between the players.
    countable, uncountable
18. a thing or portion distributed
19. A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval.
    countable, uncountable
20. arrangement or location
21. 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.
    countable, uncountable
22. A set of bundled software components.
    countable, uncountable
23. The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies.
    countable, uncountable
24. The resolution of a whole into its parts.
    countable, uncountable
25. The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
    countable, historical, uncountable
26. 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.
    countable, uncountable
27. A rhetorical technique in which a subject is divided into multiple cases based on some property or properties, and each case is addressed individually.
    countable, rhetoric, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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”

“The criterion for positivity was determined for each antigen of each species applying a mixture model to the PP data which assumed two inherent Gaussian distributions: a narrow distribution or seronegatives, and a broader distribution of seropositives.”

“Similarly, the brain-penetrating Hrh2 antagonist zolantidine had no effect on light-induced phase shift as shown for hamsters, or the lengths or distributions of NREM, REM and wakefulness states as shown on rats.”

“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.”

“The distribution of my little rock magazine is about 3,000.”

“The wealth distribution became extremely skewed in the kleptocracy.”

“The declarer had 3-6-2-2 distribution.”

“a Linux distribution”

“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.”

“Diſtribution, in Rhetoric, a Kind of Deſcription; or a Figure, whereby an orderly Diviſion, and Enumeration is made of the principal Qualities of a Subject.”

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