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Meaning
Noun
●
An
act
of
distributing
or
state of being
distributed.
●
An
apportionment
by law (of
funds
, property).
●
In Business & Marketing:
The process by which
goods
get to
final
consumers
over a
geographical
market, including
storing
,
selling
,
shipping
and advertising.
●
Anything
distributed
;
portion
; share.
●
The result of
distributing
; arrangement.
●
The total number of something
sold
or
delivered
to the clients.
●
The
frequency
of
occurrence
or
extent
of existence.
●
In Economics:
The
apportionment
of
income
or
wealth
in a population.
●
In Card games:
The
way in
which a player's
hand
is
divided
in
suits
, or in which a particular
suit
is
divided
between the players.
●
In Functions, Mathematics & Statistics:
A
probability distribution
; the set of
relative
likelihoods
that a
variable
will have a value in a given interval.
●
In Differential geometry & Mathematics:
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
.
●
In Software:
A set of
bundled
software
components.
●
In Finance:
The process or result of the
sale
of
securities
, especially their
placement
among
investors
with
long-term
investment
strategies.
●
In Logic:
The
resolution
of a whole into its parts.
●
In Printing:
The process of
sorting
the types and
placing
them in their
proper
boxes in
the cases.
●
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withdrawn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
.
●
In 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.
Sourced from
Wiktionary
Origin
distribution
English
distributio
Latin
Sourced from
Etym
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Selection
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