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Distribution means the passing out of something. A teacher is in charge of distribution of corrected essays. A lunch lady manages the distribution of food.

Distribution can also refer to the way something is distributed. In our country, many are concerned about the distribution of wealth, which is increasingly concentrated in the hands of the richest few. When you put money in a brokerage account, it's called a contribution. Taking it out is a distribution.

DEFINITIONS OF: distribution

n the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning

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the act of distributing something to designated places or persons; redistribution
distributing again; dispensation
the act of dispensing (giving out in portions); allocation, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, assignation, parceling, parcelling
the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan; deal
the act of distributing playing cards; revenue sharing
distribution of part of the federal tax income to states and municipalities; share-out, sharing
a distribution in shares; grant, subsidisation, subsidization
the act of providing a subsidy; allocation, storage allocation
(computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructions; reallocation, reallotment, reapportionment
a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results); deal
the act of apportioning or distributing something; rationing
the act of rationing; parcel, portion, share
the allotment of some amount by dividing something; misdeal
an incorrect deal; generosity, unselfishness
acting generously; gift, giving
the act of giving

Type of:: act, deed, human action, human activity
something that people do or cause to happen

n the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume

“worldwide in distribution”

“the distribution of nerve fibers”

“in complementary distribution”

Synonyms:: dispersion

Antonyms:: compactness, concentration, denseness, density, tightness
the spatial property of being crowded together

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(linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts; diaspora
the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture); diffusion, dissemination
the property of being diffused or dispersed; innervation
the distribution of nerve fibers to an organ or body region; scatter, spread
a haphazard distribution in all directions; diffuseness
the spatial property of being spread out over a wide area or through a large volume

Type of:: spacing, spatial arrangement
the property possessed by an array of things that have space between them

n the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer

Type of:: commerce, commercialism, mercantilism
transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)

n (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence

Synonyms:: statistical distribution

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a flat distribution having equal frequencies of occurrence; frequency distribution
a distribution of observed frequencies of occurrence of the values of a variable; Gaussian distribution, normal distribution
a theoretical distribution with finite mean and variance; Poisson distribution
a theoretical distribution that is a good approximation to the binomial distribution when the probability is small and the number of trials is large; sample, sample distribution, sampling
items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population; Bernoulli distribution, binomial distribution
a theoretical distribution of the number of successes in a finite set of independent trials with a constant probability of success; acceptance sampling
a statistical procedure for accepting or rejecting a batch of merchandise or documents; involves determining the maximum number of defects discovered in a sample before the entire batch is rejected; random sample
a sample in which every element in the population has an equal chance of being selected; proportional sample, representative sample, stratified sample
the population is divided into strata and a random sample is taken from each stratum

Type of:: arrangement, organisation, organization, system
an organized structure for arranging or classifying

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