Distribution
[dɪstrɪ'bjuːʃ(ə)n] or ['dɪstrə'bjʊʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning.
(noun.) the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer.
(noun.) the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume; 'worldwide in distribution'; 'the distribution of nerve fibers'; 'in complementary distribution'.
(noun.) (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence.
Checker: Phelps--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate among heirs or children.
(n.) Separation into parts or classes; arrangement of anything into parts; disposition; classification.
(n.) That which is distributed.
(n.) A resolving a whole into its parts.
(n.) The sorting of types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
(n.) The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston; viz., admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission.
Editor: Rudolf
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Apportionment, allotment, assignment, dole, partition, division, dispensation.[2]. Arrangement, classification, disposal, disposition, grouping.
Editor: Lucia
Examples
- Thus in January, 1880, his first patent application for a System of Electrical Distribution was signed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Until the beginning of 1882 there were only a few arc-lighting stations in existence for the limited distribution of current. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The whole value of the great wheel of circulation and distribution is added to the goods which are circulated and distributed by means of it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Ancient remains point to a much wider distribution of the Basque speech and people over Spain. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The socialist demand for a better distribution of wealth is of great consequence, but without a change in the very nature of labor society will not have achieved the happiness it expects. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Ere the distribution of good things commenced, a brief grace was pronounced by Mr. Hall and sung by the children. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Turning to geographical distribution, the difficulties encountered on the theory of descent with modification are serious enough. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- What we wished for was little lights, and a distribution of them to people’s houses in a manner similar to gas. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Locksley now proceeded to the distribution of the spoil, which he performed with the most laudable impartiality. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Will you have the goodness to accept of a few prospectuses for distribution in behalf of a friend of mine? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He increased the distribution of subsidized cheap corn to the Roman citizens. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The first central station for the commercial distribution of electricity was set going on the 4th of September, 1882, by Thomas Edison himself, at 257 Pearl Street, New York City. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The gist of the socialist proposal is that land and all the natural means of production, transit, and distribution should be collectively owned. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Mr. Edison made a number of other applications for patents on electrical distribution during the year 1880. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Becky consoled herself by so balancing the chances and equalizing the distribution of good and evil in the world. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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