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Distribution   /dˌɪstrəbjˈuʃən/   Listen
Distribution

noun
1.
(statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence.  Synonym: statistical distribution.
2.
The spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume.  Synonym: dispersion.  "The distribution of nerve fibers" , "In complementary distribution"
3.
The act of distributing or spreading or apportioning.
4.
The commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer.



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"Distribution" Quotes from Famous Books



... could not lift such a weight (600 lb.) even an inch directly, but a strong man can furnish the smaller force (200) over a distance of 6 feet; hence, while the machine does not lessen the total amount of work required of a man, it creates a new distribution of work and makes possible, and even easy, results which otherwise would be ...
— General Science • Bertha M. Clark

... barge being towed by an old woman, her daughter or daughter-in-law, and several children. As they strain at the rope the work seems extremely hard, but the people themselves appear unconscious of any hardship or inequality in the distribution ...
— Dutch Life in Town and Country • P. M. Hough

... More exactly, we find them in Asia, in Japan, Corea, India, Persia, Syria, and Palestine. In Africa we have them along the whole of the north coast, from Tripoli to Morocco; inland they are not recorded, except for one possible example in Egypt and several in the Soudan. In Europe the distribution of dolmens and other megalithic monuments is wide. They occur in the Caucasus and the Crimea, and quite lately examples have been recorded in Bulgaria. There are none in Greece, and only a few in Italy, in the extreme ...
— Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders • T. Eric Peet

... with his Southern associates. He believed that the future of the great West depended upon this wise and beneficial use of the national domain. Neither could he agree with Eastern statesmen who deplored the gratuitous distribution of lands, which by sale would yield large revenues. His often-repeated reply was the quintessence of Western statesmanship. The pioneer who went into the wilderness, to wrestle with all manner of hardships, was a ...
— Stephen A. Douglas - A Study in American Politics • Allen Johnson

... can be made to supply the Mayor of Bristol with one hundred copies of the 'Review,' at a cheap rate, I shall be very glad of it. The cheap republication of the attractive article would be just as injurious to booksellers who have copies of the 'Review' on hand as the distribution of copies of the 'Review.' Both measures interfere with the regular course of sale, and ...
— Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. - In Two Volumes. VOL. II. • John Knox Laughton


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