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distribution
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)
- An act of distributing or state of being distributed.
- An apportionment by law (of funds, property).
- (business, marketing) The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising.
- 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
- 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
- The result of distributing; arrangement.
- The total number of something sold or delivered to the clients.
- The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.
- (economics) The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.
- The wealth distribution became extremely skewed in the kleptocracy.
- (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.
- (mathematics, statistics) A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval.
- (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.
- (software) A set of bundled software components; distro.
- (finance) The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies.
- (logic) The resolution of a whole into its parts.
- (printing, historical) The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
- (steam engines) The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next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.
- (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.
- 1553, Thomas Wilson, The Arte of Rhetorique (1962), book iii, folio 99, page 209 s.v. “Di?tribucion”:
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)
- A distribution
- 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
- distribution, dissemination
- (mathematics) a distribution, generalized function
- (statistics) a distribution
Declension
Synonyms
- spridning
- statistics
- fördelning
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rationing
English
Verb
rationing
- present participle of ration
Noun
rationing (plural rationings)
- A ration.
- Controlled distribution of scarce resources such as food or fuel; used typically in wartime.
Related terms
- ration stamp
Translations
Anagrams
- arointing, originant
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