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The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next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.

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* 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.

Noun

(en noun)

A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something (followed by the adposition of, to or for before the purpose of the process):

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A type of theatrical acting wherein the actor utilizes his personal emotions from personal experience to portray a scripted scene.

(programming, object-oriented) A subroutine or function belonging to a class or object.

(slang) Marijuana.