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Distribution vs Nirgunty - What's the difference?

distribution | nirgunty |

As nouns the difference between distribution and nirgunty

is that distribution is distribution while nirgunty is (indian feudal history) a low-ranking official responsible for the regulation of irrigation and the distribution of water.

distribution

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  • The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next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

    English

    Noun

  • (Indian feudal history) A low-ranking official responsible for the regulation of irrigation and the distribution of water.
  • * 1807 , Francis Buchanan, A Journey from Madras Through the Countries of Mysore, Canara, and Malabar , page 269
    • The Nirgunty'' is generally a ''Whallia;'' but sometimes a ''Súdra holds the office, which is hereditary.
  • * 1811 , John Pinkerton, A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World , volume 8, page 658
    • The proper bu?ine?s of the divi?ion of Whalliaru, called Mora?u, is the cultivation of the ground, in which both men and women are very indu?trious; but they do not appear to have ever formed a part of the native militia, like the Súdra cultivators, nor to have ever been entru?ted with arms, until they began to enter into the Company’s ?ervice. From among them ?everal families hold, by hereditary right, the low village offices of Toti and Nirgunty , or of watchmen and conductors of water.
  • * 1826 , The History of British India , volume 1, page 265
    • When these allowances are withdrawn the heap is measured; and for every candaca which it contains, a measure equal to 5 1/10 Winchester bushels, there is again deducted half a seer to the village watchmen, two and a half seers to the accomptant, as much to the chief of the village; and the bottom of the heap, about an inch thick, mixed with the cow-dung which in order to purify it had been spread on the ground, is given to the Nirgunty , or conductor of water.

    See also

    * Toti

    References

    * People’s March] (September–October 1999): [http://www.bannedthought.net/India/PeoplesMarch/PM1999-2006/archives/1999/sep-oct_99/Commemorating%20200.htm Commemorating 200 years of Tipu Sultan’s Martyrdom
    The kingdom was said to have more than 39,000 tanks. Water for irrigation of the lands below the tanks was conducted by the Nirgunty, drawn invariably from a Dalit caste. The Nirgunty was, as a rule, awarded with land in the command area of the tank, in addition to an annual payment for his labours as the regulator of water. English historical terms