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As nouns the difference between distribution and composition

is that distribution is an act of distributing or state of being distributed while composition is the proportion of different parts to make a whole.

distribution

English

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Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.
  • Anything distributed; portion; share.
  • * Atterbury
    • our charitable distributions
  • The result of distributing; arrangement.
  • (mathematics, statistics) A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval.
  • (computing) A set of bundled software components; distro.
  • (economics) The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.
    • The wealth distribution became extremely skewed in the kleptocracy.
  • (finance) The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies.
  • The resolution of a whole into its parts.
  • The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
  • The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next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.
  • (lb)
  • * 1553', , ''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), '''' I, page 230/2 ''s.v.'' “' Di?tribution ²”:
    • 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

    (Derived terms) * distributional * distributionism * frequency distribution * income distribution * multidistribution * property distribution * stable distribution * probability distribution * tempered distribution

    Related terms

    * distributee * distributive * distributor

    References

    * “ Distribution]” on page 534 of § 1 (D, ed. ) of volume III (D–E, 1897) of [[w:Oxford English Dictionary, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles] (1st ed.)

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    composition

    English

    (wikipedia composition)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The proportion of different parts to make a whole.
  • The general makeup of something.
  • (obsolete) An agreement or treaty used to settle differences; later especially, an agreement to stop hostilities; a truce.
  • * , I.40:
    • It will stoope and yeeld upon better compositions to him that shall make head against it.
  • * 1630 , John Smith, True travels , in Kupperman 1988, p.50:
    • with an incredible courage they advanced to the push of the Pike with the defendants, that with the like courage repulsed, that the Turks retired and fled into the Castle, from whence by a flag of truce they desired composition .
  • (obsolete) An agreement to pay money in order to clear a liability or obligation; a settling.
  • * 1745 , Edward Young, Night-Thoughts , II:
    • Insidious death! should his strong hand arrest, / No composition sets the prisoner free.
  • (legal) an agreement or compromise by which a creditor or group of creditors accepts partial payment from a debtor.
  • A mixture or compound; the result of composing.
  • An essay.
  • (linguistics) The formation of compound words from separate words.
  • A work of music, literature or art.
  • * 1818 , (Jane Austen), A letter dated 8 September 1818:
    • and how good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard words, with all her family cares, is still more a matter of astonishment. Composition seems to me impossible with a head full of joints of mutton and doses of rhubarb.
  • (printing) Typesetting.
  • (label) Applying a function to the result of another.
  • (obsolete) Consistency; accord; congruity.
  • * Shakespeare
    • There is no composition in these news / That gives them credit.
  • Synthesis as opposed to analysis.
  • * Sir Isaac Newton
    • The investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis ought ever to precede the method of composition .

    Synonyms

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    Related terms

    * composite * compositing * compositionism * compositionist