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Meaning of 'distribution'
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. [ n.]- 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- The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston; viz., admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the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]
[ n]Meaning (1):
- the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume
- 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
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