Delivery vs Distribution - What's the difference?
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The act of conveying something.
The item which has been conveyed.
The act of giving birth
(baseball) A pitching motion.
(baseball) A thrown pitch.
The manner of speaking.
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(medicine) administration of a drug
(cricket) A ball .
(curling) The process of throwing a stone.
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.
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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.
(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The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next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.
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As nouns the difference between delivery and distribution
is that delivery is the act of conveying something while distribution is an act of distributing or state of being distributed.delivery
English
Noun
(deliveries)- The delivery was completed by four.
- delivery of a nuclear missile to its target
- Your delivery is on the table.
- The delivery was painful.
- ''His delivery has a catch in it.
- ''Here is the delivery ; ... strike three!
- The actor's delivery was flawless.
- I shall not tell what Dr. Coutras related to me in his words, but in my own, for I cannot hope to give at second hand any impression of his vivacious delivery .
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- Drug delivery system .
Derived terms
* delivery room * special deliverydistribution
English
Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)- our charitable distributions
- The wealth distribution became extremely skewed in the kleptocracy.
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.
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 distributionReferences
* “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.)