distribution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪstɹəˈbjuːʃən/
Forms: form: distributions
form: 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.
Senses: glosses: An act of distributing or state of being distributed.
glosses: An apportionment by law (of funds, property).
topics: business
marketing
glosses: The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising.
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
glosses: Anything distributed; portion; share.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2015 September 11, “Hotspots of Malaria Transmission in the Peruvian Amazon: Rapid Assessment through a Parasitological and Serological Survey”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
text: 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.
ref: 2015 December 11, “On the Role of Histamine Receptors in the Regulation of Circadian Rhythms”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
text: 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.
ref: 2023 September 26, Hafsa Khalil, “Electric blue tarantula species discovered in Thailand”, in CNN:
glosses: The result of distributing; arrangement.
examples: text: The distribution of my little rock magazine is about 3,000.
glosses: The total number of something sold or delivered to the clients.
glosses: The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.
examples: text: The wealth distribution became extremely skewed in the kleptocracy.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.
examples: text: The declarer had 3-6-2-2 distribution.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: The way in which a player's hand is divided in suits, or in which a particular suit is divided between the players.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval.
topics: mathematics
sciences
qualifier: differential geometry
glosses: 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.
examples: text: a Linux distribution
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
synonyms: distro
glosses: A set of bundled software components.
topics: business
finance
glosses: The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The resolution of a whole into its parts.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
qualifier: steam engines
glosses: 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.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1553, Thomas Wilson, The Arte of Rhetorique (1962), book iii, folio 99, page 209 s.v. “Diſtribucion”
text: 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.
ref: 1728, Ephraim Chambers, Cyclopædia I, page 230/2 s.v. “Diſtribution²”
glosses: A rhetorical technique in which a subject is divided into multiple cases based on some property or properties, and each case is addressed individually.
Derived terms: acute respiratory distress syndrome
adult respiratory distress syndrome
age distribution
antidistribution
Bernoulli distribution
beta distribution
binary distribution
binomial distribution
biodistribution
Box-Cox distribution
cat distribution system
Cauchy distribution
channel of distribution
chi-square distribution
clumped distribution
codistribution
complementary distribution
conditional probability distribution
cumulative distribution function
digital distribution
Dirichlet distribution
dist
distie
distributional
distributionally
distributionaly
distribution board
distribution box
distribution channel
distribution curve
distribution-free
distribution function
distributionism
distributionist
distributionless
distribution list
distribution lot
distribution park
distribution server
distribution transformer
distro
e-distribution
equidistribution
equidistributional
exponential distribution
F distribution
first success distribution
frequency distribution
gamma distribution
Gaussian distribution
geodistribution
geometric distribution
global distribution system
Gompertz distribution
hyperdistribution
hypergeometric distribution
immunodistribution
income distribution
interdistributional
Laplace distribution
log-normal distribution
maldistribution
marginal distribution
mass distribution
Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution
microdistribution
misdistribution
Mittag-Leffler distribution
multidistribution
negative binomial distribution
nondistribution
nondistributional
normal distribution
overdistribution
palaeodistribution
palaeodistributional
paleaodistribution
paleodistribution
paleodistributional
paracontrolled distribution
Pareto distribution
photodistribution
Poisson distribution
postdistribution
predistribution
probability distribution
property distribution
quasidistribution
Rademacher distribution
radial distribution function
redistribution
Rice distribution
shifted geometric distribution
stable distribution
standard normal distribution
stationary distribution
Student's t distribution
subdistribution
superdistribution
t distribution
t-distribution
tempered distribution
Tukey lambda distribution
ultradistribution
underdistribution
uniform distribution
Wishart distribution
Yule-Simon distribution
Related terms: distributee
distributive
distributor