Meaning of DISTRIBUTION
| Pronunciation: | | `distru'byooshun
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- [n] the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning
- [n] the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer
- [n] the spatial property of being scattered about over an area or volume
- [n] an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence
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| | Synonyms: | | dispersion, statistical distribution |
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| | Antonyms: | | compactness, concentration, denseness, density | | |
| | See Also: | | act, allocation, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, arrangement, assignation, assigning, assignment, Bernoulli distribution, binomial distribution, commerce, commercialism, complementary distribution, complementation, deal, diffusion, dispensation, dissemination, frequency distribution, Gaussian distribution, human action, human activity, innervation, marketing, mercantilism, normal distribution, organisation, organization, parceling, parcelling, Poisson distribution, redistribution, revenue sharing, sample, sample distribution, scatter, share-out, sharing, spacing, spatial arrangement, spread, statistics, system | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Dis`tri*bu"tion\, n. [L. distributio: cf. F.
distribution.]
1. The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing
or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as,
the distribution of an estate among heirs or children.
The phenomena of geological distribution are exactly
analogous to those of geography. --A. R.
Wallace.
2. Separation into parts or classes; arrangement of anything
into parts; disposition; classification.
3. That which is distributed. ``Our charitable
distributions.'' --Atterbury.
4. (Logic) A resolving a whole into its parts.
5. (Print.) The sorting of types and placing them in their
proper boxes in the cases.
6. (Steam Engine) The steps or operations by which steam is
supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke
of the piston; viz., admission, suppression or cutting
off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam
prior to the next admission.
{Geographical distribution}, the natural arrangements of
animals and plants in particular regions or districts.
Syn: Apportionments; allotment; dispensation; disposal;
dispersion; classification; arrangement.
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| | Definition: | | 1. A software source tree packaged for distribution; but see kit. 2. A vague term encompassing mailing lists and Usenet newsgroups (but not BBS fora); any topic-oriented message channel with multiple recipients. 3. An information-space domain (usually loosely correlated with geography) to which propagation of a Usenet message is restricted; a much-underused feature. [Jargon File] |
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| | Related Terms: | | administration, allocation, allotment, apportionment, arrangement, array, arraying, assignment, attenuation, broadcast, broadcasting, cataloguing, circulation, circumfusion, classification, codification, collation, collocation, constitution, deployment, diffraction, diffusion, dilution, disbursal, disbursement, dispensation, dispersal, dispersion, disposal, disposition, dissemination, dissipation, divergence, division, dole, doling, doling out, evaporation, expansion, form, formation, formulation, fragmentation, giving out, grouping, issuance, marshaling, order, ordering, passing around, paying out, peppering, placement, propagation, publication, radiation, regimentation, scattering, scatterment, sequence, sharing, shotgun pattern, sowing, spattering, splay, spread, spreading, sprinkling, strewing, structuring, syntax, volatilization |
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