1. Noun
The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate among heirs or children.
2. Noun
Separation into parts or classes; arrangement of anything into parts; disposition; classification.
3. Noun
That which is distributed.
4. Noun
A resolving a whole into its parts.
5. Noun
The sorting of types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
6. Noun
The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston; viz., admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission.
7. Noun
How data or resources are spread out.
The pattern showing how values, cases or resources are spread across categories, locations or a numerical range. Describe shape, centre, spread and unusual values where relevant.
“The distribution of scores was strongly skewed towards the upper end.”
Describe shape, centre, spread and unusual values where relevant
8. Noun
the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer
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9. Noun
(statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence
Vocabulary classified under Medicine and healthcare
10. Noun
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"
Vocabulary classified under Geography
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