Section vs Distribution - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between section and distribution

is that section is a cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something while distribution is an act of distributing or state of being distributed.

As a verb section

is to cut, divide or separate into pieces.

section

English

(wikipedia section)

Noun

(en noun)

A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.

A part, piece, subdivision of anything.

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A part of a document.

An act or instance of cutting.

A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).

# (aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.

(surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.

(sciences) A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.

(senseid) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.

An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.

(military) A group of 10-15 soldiers lead by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.

(category theory) A right inverse.

(NZ) A piece of residential land usually a quarter of an acre in size; a plot.

(label) A one-mile square area of land, defined by a government survey.

Synonyms

* (sense) sectio * cutting, slice, snippet * division, part, slice, piece * volume

Antonyms

* whole

Coordinate terms

* (aviation) waterline, buttock line

Derived terms

* cross section * dissection * bisection * quarter section * section road * section grid

Verb

(en verb)

To cut, divide or separate into pieces.

(British) To commit (a person, to a hospital, with or without their consent), as for mental health reasons.

* 1998 , Diana Gittins, Madness in its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital, 1913-1997 , Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-18388-8, page 45:

Tribunals were set up as watchdogs in cases of compulsory detention (sectioning'). Informal patients, however, could be ' sectioned , and this was often a fear of patients once they were in hospital.

* Lucy Johnstone, Users and Abusers of Psychiatry: A Critical Look at Psychiatric Practice , Second Edition, Routledge (2000), ISBN 978-0-415-21155-0, page xiv:

The doctor then sectioned her, making her an involuntary patient, and had her moved to a secure ward.

* 2006 , Mairi Colme, A Divine Dance of Madness , Chipmunkapublishing, ISBN 978-1-84747-023-2, page 5:

After explaining that for 7 years, from ’88 to ’95, I was permanently sectioned under the Mental Health act, robbed of my freedom, my integrity, my rights, I wrote at the time;- ¶

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distribution

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Alternative forms

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.)

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