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distribution.

An act of distributing or state of being distributed.

12 characters4 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˌdɪstɹɪˈbjuːʃən/Received-Pronunciation/ˌdɪstɹɪˈbjuʃən/Canada, General-American/ˌdɪstɹəˈbjuʃən/Canada, General-American/ˌdɪstɹɪˈbjʉːʃən/Australia
  1. An act of distributing or state of being distributed.

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  2. An apportionment by law (of funds, property).

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  3. The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising.

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  4. Anything distributed; portion; share.

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  5. The result of distributing; arrangement.

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  6. The total number of something sold or delivered to the clients.

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    The distribution of my little rock magazine is about 3,000.
  7. The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.

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  8. The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.

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    The wealth distribution became extremely skewed in the kleptocracy.
  9. The way in which a player's hand is divided in suits, or in which a particular suit is divided between the players.

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    The declarer had 3-6-2-2 distribution.
  10. A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval.

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  11. A subset of the tangent bundle of a manifold that satisfies certain properties; used to construct the notions of integrability and foliation of a manifold.

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  12. A set of bundled software components.

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    a Linux distribution
  13. The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies.

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  14. The resolution of a whole into its parts.

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  15. The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.

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  16. 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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  17. A rhetorical technique in which a subject is divided into multiple cases based on some property or properties, and each case is addressed individually.

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Where this word comes from

From Old French distribution, from Latin distributio, from distribuere 'to distribute', itself from dis- 'apart' + tribuere 'to' (from tribus). By surface analysis, distribute + -ion.

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