distribution function

English

Noun

distribution function (plural distribution functions)

1. (mathematics, physics) A function of seven variables of the form $f(x,y,z,t;v_{x},v_{y},v_{z})$ that gives the number of particles per unit volume in single-particle phase space.

Hypernyms

• function

Hyponyms

• Fermi-Dirac distribution function
• particle distribution function
• radial distribution function

References

• distribution function on Wikipedia.Wikipedia