different between distribution vs percentage

English

Alternative forms

• distribucion (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin distributio, from distribuere 'to distribute', itself from dis- 'apart' + tribuere 'to' (from tribus).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?st???bju???n/

Noun

distribution (countable and uncountable, plural distributions)

1. An act of distributing or state of being distributed.
2. An apportionment by law (of funds, property).
3. (business, marketing) The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising.
4. Anything distributed; portion; share.
   • December 6, 1709, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd before the sons of the clergy at their anniversary-meeting in the Church of St. Paul

     our charitable distributions

5. The result of distributing; arrangement.
6. The total number of something sold or delivered to the clients.

7. The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.
8. (economics) The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.

   The wealth distribution became extremely skewed in the kleptocracy.

9. (card games) The way in which a player's hand is divided in suits, or in which a particular suit is divided between the players.

10. (mathematics, statistics) A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval.
11. (mathematics, differential geometry) 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.
12. (software) A set of bundled software components; distro.
13. (finance) The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies.
14. (logic) The resolution of a whole into its parts.
15. (printing, historical) The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
16. (steam engines) The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission.
17. (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.
    • 1553, Thomas Wilson, The Arte of Rhetorique (1962), book iii, folio 99, page 209 s.v. “Di?tribucion”:

      It is al?o called a di?tribucion, when we diuide the whole, into ?euerall partes, and ?aie we haue foure poynctes, whereof we purpo?e to ?peake, comp?ehendyng our whole talke within compa??e of the?ame.

    • 1728, Ephraim Chambers, Cyclopædia I, page 230/2 s.v. “Di?tribution²”:

      Di?tribution, in Rhetoric, a Kind of De?cription; or a Figure, whereby an orderly Divi?ion, and Enumeration is made of the principal Qualities of a Subject.

Derived terms

Related terms

• distributee
• distributive
• distributor

Translations

References

• “Distribution” on page 534 of § 1 (D, ed. James Augustus Henry Murray) of volume III (D–E, 1897) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st ed.)

Further reading

• Distribution on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Noun

distribution c (singular definite distributionen, plural indefinite distributioner)

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Declension

Further reading

• “distribution” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From Classical Latin distributio, from distribuere 'to distribute', itself from dis- 'apart' + tribuere 'to ' (from tribus).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis.t?i.by.sj??/

Noun

distribution f (plural distributions)

1. A distribution
2. A physical arrangement, spacing

Related terms

• distribuable
• distribuer
• distributaire m
• distributeur m
• distributif
• distributivement

Further reading

• “distribution” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Swedish

Noun

distribution c

1. distribution, dissemination
2. (mathematics) a distribution, generalized function
3. (statistics) a distribution

Declension

Synonyms

• spridning

statistics

• fördelning

English

Etymology

From Latin per centum (“for every hundred”), +? -age.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??s?nt?d??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p??s?nt?d??/
• Hyphenation: per?cent?age

Noun

percentage (plural percentages)

1. The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.

   A high percentage of secondary school leavers take a gap year.

2. A share of the sales, profits, gross margin or similar.

   She gets a percentage for every vacuum cleaner sold.

3. (informal) Benefit or advantage.

   There was no percentage in staying at home.

Usage notes

• A percentage is often denoted by the character (%).

Ex. 50% denotes 50 per cent.

Derived terms

Related terms

• percent
• percentile

Translations

Dutch

Alternative forms

• procentage (archaic)

Etymology

From percent +? -age. Cf. English percentage, French percentage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?r.s?n?ta?.??/
• Hyphenation: per?cen?ta?ge
• Rhymes: -a???

Noun

percentage n (plural percentages)

1. percentage (amount or rate as part of 100)