distribution

noun17

1. •
   An act of distributing or state of being distributed.
2. •
   An apportionment by law (of funds, property).
3. •
   The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising.
4. •
   The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies.
5. •
   (historical) The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
6. •
   The result of distributing; arrangement.

   • 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. — 2023
7. •
   The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.
8. •
   The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.

   • The wealth distribution became extremely skewed in the kleptocracy.
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   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.
10. •
    A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval.
11. •
    A set of bundled software components.
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    The total number of something sold or delivered to the clients.

    • The distribution of my little rock magazine is about 3,000.
13. •
    Anything distributed; portion; share.
14. •
    The resolution of a whole into its parts.
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    (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.

    • 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. — 1728
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    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.
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    The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next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.