Distribution vs Research - 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The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next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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* 1553', , ''The Arte of Rhetorique'' (1962), book iii,
* 1728', (Ephraim Chambers), '''' I,
(uncountable) Diligent inquiry or examination to seek or revise facts, principles, theories, applications, etc.; laborious or continued search after truth.
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(countable) A particular instance or piece of research.
* Macaulay
* 1747 , The Scots magazine (volume 9, page 567)
To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.
To make an extensive investigation into.
To search again.
As nouns the difference between distribution and research
is that distribution is distribution while research is (uncountable) diligent inquiry or examination to seek or revise facts, principles, theories, applications, etc; laborious or continued search after truth.As a verb research is
to search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.distribution
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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.)
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(wikipedia research)Noun
citation, passage=In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research , the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.}}
- The dearest interests of parties have frequently been staked on the results of the researches of antiquaries.
- The first step I took in this so necessary a research , was to examine the motives, the justice, the necessity and expediency of the revolution
