distribution
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
card-games
computing
economics
engineering
finance
games
human-sciences
logic
marketing
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
printing
publishing
sciences
software
statistics
Etymology: From Old French, from Latin distributio, from distribuere 'to distribute', itself from dis- 'apart' + tribuere 'to' (from tribus). By surface analysis, distribute + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: distributions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: distribucion
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: An act of distributing or state of being distributed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An apportionment by law (of funds, property).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Anything distributed; portion; share.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
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
gloss: The result of distributing; arrangement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: The total number of something sold or delivered to the clients.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The distribution of my little rock magazine is about 3,000.
gloss: The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The wealth distribution became extremely skewed in the kleptocracy.
gloss: The way in which a player's hand is divided in suits, or in which a particular suit is divided between the players.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The declarer had 3-6-2-2 distribution.
gloss: A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In fact, NALP has been at the forefront of educating prospective lawyers on the dangers of focusing on “average” starting salaries. The average is meaningless. The median is just slightly more helpful, and NALP has been begging people to pay attention to the bimodal salary distribution curve that tells the true story of how much lawyers are likely to get paid.
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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A set of bundled software components.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a Linux distribution
gloss: The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The resolution of a whole into its parts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A rhetorical technique in which a subject is divided into multiple cases based on some property or properties, and each case is addressed individually.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rhetoric
uncountable
examples: 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.
Related words: distributee
distributive
distributor
Derived words: 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
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
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