distribution
n
1 the act of distributing or the state or manner of being distributed
2 a thing or portion distributed
3 arrangement or location
4 (Commerce) the process of physically satisfying the demand for goods and services
5 (Economics) the division of the total income of a community among its members, esp. between labour incomes (wages and salaries) and property incomes (rents, interest, and dividends)
6 (Statistics) the set of possible values of a random variable, or points in a sample space, considered in terms of new theoretical or observed frequency
a normal distribution
7 (Law) the apportioning of the estate of a deceased intestate among the persons entitled to share in it
8 (Law) the lawful division of the assets of a bankrupt among his creditors
a the division of part of a company's profit as a dividend to its shareholders
b the amount paid by dividend in a particular distribution
10 (Engineering) the way in which the fuel-air mixture is supplied to each cylinder of a multicylinder internal-combustion engine
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distributional adj