Distribution

English Meaning

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.

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