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The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next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

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, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=3 citation , passage=‘[…] There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique. The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning—he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way—’}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-03

, author=Frank Fish, George Lauder , title=Not Just Going with the Flow , volume=101, issue=2, page=114 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex . The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.}}

A translation from one language to another.

(obsolete) The act of translating, or rendering, from one language into another language.

An account or description from a particular point of view, especially as contrasted with another account.

(computing) A particular revision (of software, firmware, CPU, etc.).

(medicine) A condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. See anteversion and retroversion.

(ophthalmology) An eye movement involving both eyes moving synchronously and symmetrically in the same direction.

(obsolete, or, medicine) A change of form, direction, etc.; transformation; conversion.

* Francis Bacon

The version of air into water.