Dictionary entries for 'distribution'

Synonyms

dis·tri·bu·tion (dĭśtrə-byōṓshən)

noun

The act of distributing or the condition of being distributed; apportionment.
Something distributed; an allotment.
The act of dispersing or the condition of being dispersed; diffusion.
1. The geographic occurrence or range of an organism.
2. The geographic occurrence or range of a custom, usage, or other feature.
Division into categories; classification.
The process of marketing and supplying goods, especially to retailers.
A spatial or temporal array of objects or events: the distribution of theaters on Broadway.
Law The division of an estate or property among rightful heirs.
Statistics A set of numbers and their frequency of occurrence collected from measurements over a statistical population.
Mathematics A generalized function used in the study of partial differential equations.