Meaning

17 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)An act of distributing or state of being distributed.

    Distribution, Verbreitung, Austeilung

    распростране́ниеrasprostranénije, разда́чаrazdáča, распределе́ниеraspredelénije

    розпо́ділrozpódil, розповсю́дженняrozpovsjúdžennja, поши́ренняpošýrennja

    the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning

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

    Aufteilung

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

    Distribution, Absatz

    дистрибу́ціяdystrybúcija

  4. (countable, uncountable)Anything distributed; portion; share.

    December 6, 1709, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd before the sons of the clergy at their anniversary-meeting in the Church of St. Paul our charitable distributions

    Streuung, Verbreitung, Aufteilung

  5. (countable, uncountable)The result of distributing; arrangement.

    Distribution, Aufteilung

    распростране́ниеrasprostranénije

    розпо́ділrozpódil

  6. (countable, uncountable)The total number of something sold or delivered to the clients.

    The distribution of my little rock magazine is about 3,000.

  7. (countable, uncountable)The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.

    Distribution, Verbreitung, Aufteilung

    розповсю́дженняrozpovsjúdžennja, поши́ренняpošýrennja

    (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence

  8. (countable, uncountable)The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.

    The wealth distribution became extremely skewed in the kleptocracy.

  9. (countable, uncountable)The way in which a player's hand is divided in suits, or in which a particular suit is divided between the players.

    The declarer had 3-6-2-2 distribution.

  10. (countable, uncountable)A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval.

    Distribution, Gliederung, Aufteilung

    распределе́ниеraspredelénije

    розпо́ділrozpódil

  11. (countable, uncountable)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.

  12. (countable, uncountable)A set of bundled software components.

    a Linux distribution

Examples

39 sentences
  1. They argue that the distribution of wealth should be equitable.

  2. Ubuntu is a popular Linux distribution.

    ruUbuntu — популярный дистрибутив Linux. — namikiri

    deUbuntu ist eine populäre Linux-Distribution. — samueldora

  3. I love the distribution of gifts.

  4. They wanted to control the drug distribution network.

  5. The distribution of this product is a little slow.

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
act of distribution or being distributed:
process by which goods get to final consumers:
Русский
By meaning 1
act of distribution or being distributed:
Deutsch
By meaning 5
act of distribution or being distributed:
apportionment by law of funds, property:
process by which goods get to final consumers:
anything distributed:
statistics: set of relative likelihoods — see also probability distribution:

Origin

From Old French distribution, from Latin distributio, from distribuere 'to distribute', it

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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