distribution
Appearance
See also: Distribution
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French, from Latin distributio, from distribuere 'to distribute', itself from dis- 'apart' + tribuere 'to' (from tribus).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]distribution (countable and uncountable, plural distributions)
- An act of distributing or state of being distributed.
- An apportionment by law (of funds, property).
- (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.
- 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
- 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
- The result of distributing; arrangement.
- The total number of something sold or delivered to the clients.
- The distribution of my little rock magazine is about 3,000.
- The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.
- (economics) The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.
- The wealth distribution became extremely skewed in the kleptocracy.
- (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.
- The declarer had 3-6-2-2 distribution.
- (mathematics, statistics) A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval.
- (mathematics, differential geometry) 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.
- (software) A set of bundled software components.
- Synonym: distro
- a Linux distribution
- (finance) The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies.
- (logic) The resolution of a whole into its parts.
- (printing, historical) The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
- (steam engines) The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next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.
- (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.
- 1553, Thomas Wilson, The Arte of Rhetorique (1962), book iii, folio 99, page 209 s.v. “Diſtribucion”:
- 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.
- 1728, Ephraim Chambers, Cyclopædia I, page 230/2 s.v. “Diſtribution²”:
- 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.
- 1553, Thomas Wilson, The Arte of Rhetorique (1962), book iii, folio 99, page 209 s.v. “Diſtribucion”:
Derived terms
[edit]- acute respiratory distress syndrome
- adult respiratory distress syndrome
- age distribution
- antidistribution
- Bernoulli distribution
- beta distribution
- binary distribution
- binomial distribution
- biodistribution
- Cauchy distribution
- channel of distribution
- chi-square distribution
- clumped distribution
- codistribution
- complementary distribution
- conditional probability distribution
- cumulative distribution function
- digital distribution
- dist
- distie
- distributional
- distributionally
- distributionaly
- distribution board
- 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
- frequency distribution
- gamma distribution
- Gaussian distribution
- geodistribution
- geometric distribution
- global distribution system
- Gompertz distribution
- hyperdistribution
- hypergeometric distribution
- immunodistribution
- income distribution
- interdistributional
- Laplace 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
- 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
[edit]Translations
[edit]act of distribution or being distributed
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apportionment by law of funds, property
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process by which goods get to final consumers
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total number of something sold or delivered to the clients
frequency of occurrence or extent of existence
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anything distributed
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the result of distributing; arrangement
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economics: apportionment of income or wealth in a population
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statistics: set of relative likelihoods — see also probability distribution
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software: set of bundled software components — see also distro
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finance: process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies
printing: process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes
rhetorical figure
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References
[edit]- “Distribution” on page 534 of § 1 (D, ed. James Augustus Henry Murray) of volume III (D–E, 1897) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st ed.)
Further reading
[edit]- Distribution on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Danish
[edit]Noun
[edit]distribution c (singular definite distributionen, plural indefinite distributioner)
- distribution, dissemination
- distribution of goods and/or services
- (statistics) a distribution
Declension
[edit]Declension of distribution
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | distribution | distributionen | distributioner | distributionerne |
genitive | distributions | distributionens | distributioners | distributionernes |
Further reading
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin distribūtiō.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]distribution f (plural distributions)
- delivery
- Near-synonym: livraison
- la distribution du courrier ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- distribution (process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market)
- la grande distribution ― large retailers
- la moyenne distribution ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- la petite distribution ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- allocation, casting
- Synonym: répartition
- la distribution des rôles ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- distribution (physical arrangement, spacing)
Further reading
[edit]- “distribution”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]distribution c
- distribution
- (mathematics) a distribution, generalized function
- (statistics) a distribution
Declension
[edit]Declension of distribution
Related terms
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