| distribution | |
| 1. n. An act of distributing or state of being distributed. | |
| 2. n. An apportionment by law (of funds, property). | |
| 3. n. (business, marketing) The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising. | |
| 4. n. The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence. | |
| 5. n. Anything distributed; portion; share. | |
| 6. n. The result of distributing; arrangement. | |
| 7. n. (mathematics, statistics) A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval. | |
| 8. n. (computing) A set of bundled software components; distro. | |
| 9. n. (economics) The apportionment of income or wealth in a population. | |
| The wealth distribution became extremely skewed in the kleptocracy. | |
| 10. n. (finance) The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies. | |
| 11. n. (logic) The resolution of a whole into its parts. | |
| 12. n. (printing, historical) The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases. | |
| 13. n. (steam engines) The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compr | |
| 14. n. (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. | |
