Distribution vs Adaptation - What's the difference?
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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
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The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next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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* 1728', (Ephraim Chambers), '''' I,
(label) The quality of being adapted; adaption; adjustment.
(label) Adjustment to extant conditions: as, adjustment of a sense organ to the intensity or quality of stimulation; modification of some thing or its parts that makes it more fit for existence under the conditions of its current environment.
* {{quote-book, title=, year=1911
, passage=ACCLIMATIZATION, the process of adaptation by which animals and plants are gradually rendered capable of surviving and flourishing in countries remote from their original habitats, or under meteorological conditions different from those which they have usually to endure, and at first injurious to them.}}
(label) Something which has been adapted; variation.
* {{quote-book, author=Frederick Lawton, title=, year=1910
, passage=Having partly a bibliographic value, and partly confirming the statements above as to Balzac's influence, the following details concerning theatrical adaptations of some of his novels may serve as a supplement to this chapter.}}
Distribution is a related term of adaptation.
As nouns the difference between distribution and adaptation
is that distribution is distribution while adaptation is (label) the quality of being adapted; adaption; adjustment.distribution
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.)