English Explanatory Dictionary

distribution

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An act of distributing or state of being distributed.
  2. An apportionment by law (of funds, property).
  3. The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising.
  4. Anything distributed; portion; share.
  5. The result of distributing; arrangement.
  6. The total number of something sold or delivered to the clients.
  7. The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.
  8. The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.
  9. The way in which a player's hand is divided in suits, or in which a particular suit is divided between the players.
  10. A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval.
  11. 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.
  12. A set of bundled software components.

Pronunciation

/ˌdɪstɹəˈbjuːʃən/ en-us-distribution.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-distribution.wav

Word forms

distribution distributions distribucion

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin distributio, from distribuere 'to distribute', itself from dis- 'apart' + tribuere 'to' (from tribus). By surface analysis, distribute + -ion.

Synonyms

distro

Related words

distributee distributive distributor

Derived words

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