ALL meanings of distribution
dis·tri·bu·tion
D d - noun distribution spread 1
- noun distribution logistics 1
- noun distribution grouping, arrangement 1
- noun distribution an act or instance of distributing. 1
- noun distribution the state or manner of being distributed. 1
- noun distribution arrangement; classification. 1
- noun distribution something that is distributed. 1
- noun distribution 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? 1
- noun distribution placement, location, arrangement, or disposition: The distribution of our troops is a military secret. 1
- noun distribution apportionment: The court decided the distribution of the property among the heirs. 1
- noun distribution the delivery or giving out of an item or items to the intended recipients, as mail or newspapers. 1
- noun distribution the total number of an item delivered, sold, or given out: The distribution of our school paper is now 800. 1
- noun distribution the marketing, transporting, merchandising, and selling of any item. 1
- noun distribution (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. 1
- noun distribution Economics. the division of the aggregate income of any society among its members, or among the factors of production. the system of dispersing goods throughout a community. 1
- noun distribution Statistics. a set of values or measurements of a set of elements, each measurement being associated with an element. 1
- noun distribution Mathematics. a generalized function used especially in solving differential equations. 1
- noun Definition of distribution in Technology 1. (software) A software source tree packaged for distribution; but see kit. 2. (messaging) A vague term encompassing mailing lists and Usenet newsgroups (but not BBS fora); any topic-oriented message channel with multiple recipients. 3. (messaging) An information-space domain (usually loosely correlated with geography) to which propagation of a Usenet message is restricted; a much-underused feature. 1
- noun distribution The action of sharing something out among a number of recipients. 1
- uncountable noun distribution The distribution of things involves giving or delivering them to a number of people or places. 0
- variable noun distribution The distribution of something is how much of it there is in each place or at each time, or how much of it each person has. 0
- uncountable noun distribution Film distribution involves deciding which cinemas a particular film is shown in. 0
- noun distribution An act of distributing or state of being distributed. 0
- noun distribution the act of distributing or the state or manner of being distributed 0
- noun distribution An apportionment by law (of funds, property). 0
- noun distribution a thing or portion distributed 0
- noun distribution (business, marketing) The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising. 0
- noun distribution arrangement or location 0
- noun distribution The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence. 0
- noun distribution the process of physically satisfying the demand for goods and services 0
- noun distribution Anything distributed; portion; share. 0
- noun distribution 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) 0
- noun distribution The result of distributing; arrangement. 0
- noun distribution the set of possible values of a random variable, or points in a sample space, considered in terms of new theoretical or observed frequency 0
- noun distribution (mathematics, statistics) A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval. 0
- noun distribution the apportioning of the estate of a deceased intestate among the persons entitled to share in it 0
- noun distribution (computing) A set of bundled software components; distro. 0
- noun distribution the lawful division of the assets of a bankrupt among his or her creditors 0
- noun distribution (economics) The apportionment of income or wealth in a population. 0
- noun distribution the division of part of a company's profit as a dividend to its shareholders 0
- noun distribution (finance) The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies. 0
- noun distribution the amount paid by dividend in a particular distribution 0
- noun distribution (logic) The resolution of a whole into its parts. 0
- noun distribution the way in which the fuel-air mixture is supplied to each cylinder of a multicylinder internal-combustion engine 0
- noun distribution (printing, historical) The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases. 0
- noun distribution a distributing or being distributed 0
- noun distribution (steam engines) 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. 0
- noun distribution apportionment by law (of funds, property, etc.) 0
- noun distribution (rhetoric) A rhetorical technique in which a subject is divided into multiple cases based on some property or properties, and each case is addressed individually. 0
- noun distribution the process by which commodities get to final consumers, including storing, selling, shipping, and advertising 0