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As nouns the difference between distribution and transference

is that distribution is distribution while transference is the act of conveying from one place to another; the act of transferring or the fact of being transferred.

distribution

English

Alternative forms

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  • The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next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

    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.)

    transference

    English

    Noun

  • The act of conveying from one place to another; the act of transferring or the fact of being transferred.
  • (psychology) The process by which emotions and desires, originally associated with one person, such as a parent, are unconsciously shifted to another.
  • * '>citation
  • Furthermore, although probably few analysts still believe
    that transference' occurs only in the context of the psycho-
    analytic situation, many hold that this phenomenon pertains
    only to object relationships. I submit, however, that the char-
    acteristic features of '''transference''' can be observed in other
    situations as well, especially in the area of learned skills.6
    Thus, speaking a language with a foreign accent is one of the
    most striking everyday examples of transference. In the tradi-
    tional concept of transference, one person (the analysand)
    behaves toward another (the analyst) as if the latter were
    someone else, previously familiar to him; and the subject is
    usually unaware of the actual manifestations of his own trans-
    ferred behavior. In exactly the same way, persons who speak
    English (or any other language) with a foreign accent treat
    English as if it were their mother tongue; and they are usually
    unaware of the actual manifestations of their transferred be-
    havior. Such persons think of themselves as speaking unac-
    cented English: they cannot hear their own distortions of the
    language when they speak. Only when their accent is pointed
    out to them, or, better, only when they hear their recorded
    voices played back to them, do they recognize their linguistic
    transferences. These are striking parallels not only between
    the stereotyped behavioral acts due to previous habit, but also
    between the necessity for auxiliary channels of information
    outside the person's own self for recognizing the effects of
    these habits. This view of '
    transference
    rests on empirical
    observations concerning the basic human tendency to general-
    ize experiences.?

    Derived terms

    * counter-transference

    See also

    * projection *