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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



... has ever sprung up anywhere without a seed has been planted, either by the will of God or by the hands of man. With regard, however, to the distribution of vegetation in a natural state, that depends more upon the soil and climate than anything else; wherever there is a fertile soil and moist air, there ...
— Willis the Pilot • Paul Adrien
... entire population of the globe since human life first appeared on it. But the precautions necessary to insure that the inoculation shall consist of nothing else but the required germ in the proper state of attenuation are a very different matter from the precautions necessary in the distribution and consumption of beefsteaks. Yet people expect to find vaccines and antitoxins and the like retailed at "popular prices" in private enterprise shops just as they expect to find ounces of tobacco and papers ...
— The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors • George Bernard Shaw
... had no other lovers—an astonishing thing in an actress of the kind, but being full of tact and wit she drove none of her admirers to despair. She was neither over sparing nor over generous in the distribution of her favours, and knew how to make the whole town rave about her without fearing the results of indiscretion or sorrows ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... and wealth. It was hardly less than audacious that the four departments assigned to the South should be those which dealt most intimately and most extensively with the finances, the manufactures, and the commerce of the country. The quiet manner in which the North accepted this inequitable distribution of political power added only another proof of the complete ascendency which the South had acquired in the councils of ...
— Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine
... the Frankish kingdom for over a hundred years after the death of Clovis. Yet the nation continued to develop in spite of the unscrupulous deeds of its rulers. It had no enemies strong enough to assail it, and a certain unity was preserved in spite of the ever-shifting distribution of territory among the members of the ...
— An Introduction to the History of Western Europe • James Harvey Robinson


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