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distribution - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'distribution' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Distribution [ 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.
- Separation into parts or classes; arrangement of anything into parts; disposition; classification.
- That which is distributed.
- A resolving a whole into its parts.
- The sorting of 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- The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston; viz., admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission.

Meaning of 'distribution' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . distribution [ n]
Meaning (1):
- the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume
Example in sentence:
  • in complementary distribution;
  • the distribution of nerve fibers;
  • worldwide in distribution